Cultures of the Black diaspora, with Louis Chude-Sokei and Scott Black

09/04/2025 47 min Episodio 7
Cultures of the Black diaspora, with Louis Chude-Sokei and Scott Black

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Episode Synopsis

Louis Chude-Sokei, author of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, discusses the Black diaspora, sound, accent, masculinity, Afrofuturism, dub music, and AI with Scott Black. Links: 

Louis Chude-Sokei, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
Louis Chude-Sokei, The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 
Louis Chude-Sokei, The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Carnegie Hall’s Afrofuturism festival 
Anarchic Artificial Intelligence 

Louis Chude-Sokei is George and Joyce Wein Chair in African-American and Black Diaspora Studies, and Director of the African-American and Black Diaspora Studies Program, at Boston University. Scott Black is Director of the Tanner Humanities Center. 
Episode edited by Ethan Rauschkolb. Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or University.

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