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How can we build a world that centers on the humanity of Black people, using the tenets of Black resistance as a guide towards a new political imagining? Dr. Christopher Paul Harris, Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, joins host Mark Anthony Neal to talk about his new book, "To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care," published by Princeton University Press.

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Left of Black is the Webby Awards-nominated web series featuring interviews with Black Studies scholars created and hosted by James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal. From 2010-2020, it was produced by the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Global Studies. In 2020, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute took over production, with funding support from Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

Directed & edited by Eric Barstow, M.F.A.
Assistant editor, Jakiah Glass

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