S E1324: In Class with Carr, Ep. 323: “From Time to Time”

About this episode

This episode explores the nature of time and rituals of transition in relation to Africana Governance and power dynamics.

In session 323, In Class with Carr uses the 2026 Commencement Season to explore the nature of time and the ways rituals marking transition create opportunities to reflect on Africana Governance, our relationships to one another and our obligations to each other. Centering Sankofa as a Way of Knowing, we examine how individual and collective dignity and power are strengthened through action-oriented rituals of Cultural Meaning-Making that encourage collective reflection. Strengthening this momentum of memory is especially important during moments when Social Structures intensify contests over global and local power arrangements and weaponize identity and memory against groups perceived as threats to existing power systems. This week, during a meeting with the U.S. President and leading figures in global business, Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked a metaphor from the Greek historian Thucydides—“the Thucydides Trap”—to signal a shifting global balance of power. Whether in conversations among BRICS foreign ministers in India, in commencement addresses to anxious graduates at Black and other institutions, or in testimony of rising forces determined to break attempts by White…

People in this episode

Host: Carr

Topics covered

• nature of time
• Africana Governance
• Cultural Meaning-Making
• collective reflection
• global power arrangements
• identity and memory

Keywords

• time
• rituals
• Africana Governance
• Cultural Meaning-Making
• global power
• identity
• memory

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BRICS

Places: U.S., India, Confederate U.S. South

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