Academy Vibes 01-02: Media Studies with Briana Barner

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Major conference: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS)

Historically Black colleges and universities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education

(The Carnegie Classification system was most recently revised in 2025, so the description in this episode is not highly up-to-date.)

Foundational texts:

Stuart Hall, "What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?." In Stuart Hall, pp. 479-489. Routledge, 2006.

Patricia Hill Collins, Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. routledge, 2022.

Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down. Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Beacon Press, 2002.

Postmodern theorists and works Watson mentioned:

Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard (The Postmodern Condition), Fredric Jameson (Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism)

Good speakers:

Alfred L. Martin, Jr. https://www.alfredmartin.com/

Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press, 11 October 2024. [OPEN ACCESS: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/finding-god-in-all-the-black-places/9781978839779/]

Brian Eno, A year with swollen appendices: Brian Eno's Diary. Faber & Faber, 1996.

What Song is Your Field: Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi

Guests Briana recommends:

Alfred Martin, Media Studies

Shatavia Wynn, Religious Studies

XKCD, "Average Familiarity" (the feldspar comic): https://xkcd.com/2501/

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Academy Vibes 01-01: Sociology with Corey J. Miles

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Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South. 2023. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Vibe

Kiese Laymon, "My Head Is a Part of My Body and My Middle Name Is Makeba," theroot.com, 13 August 2020. https://www.theroot.com/my-head-is-part-of-my-body-and-my-middle-name-is-makeba-1844716563

Rahsaan Mahadeo, Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black. 2024.

"When movements have been unable to clear the clouds, it has been the poets … who have succeeded in imagining the color of the sky, in rendering the kinds of dreams and futures social movements are capable of producing. Knowing the color of the sky is far more important than counting clouds. … the most radical art is not protest art but works that take us to another place, envision a different way of seeing, perhaps a different way of feeling."

Robin D.G. Kelley, "'When History Sleeps': A Beginning," Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. 2002.

Works and scholars mentioned in the "Foundational Works" question: Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois.

Journals:

• American Sociological Review
• Social Forces
• Social Problems
• Du Bois Review

Places to get into the cutting edge of sociology: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Contexts magazine

Good speakers: Saida Grundy (Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man. 2022), Rahsaan Mahadeo.

If your field were a song: "Never Scared" by Bone Crusher, ft. Killer Mike, T.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIjCkw3Jfg

Who else we should have on: Jennifer C. Nash (Author, Black Feminism Reimagined), Brandi Thompson Summers (Author, Black in Place), Joshua Myers (Author, Of Black Study)

T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson BlueSky @txwatson.com TikTok @txwatson

Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg BlueSky @oddpride.com TikTok @oddpride