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The episode features a conversation with Ifetayo Flannery about Black Studies methodology and its cultural significance.

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today’s conversation is with Ifetayo Flannery, who teaches in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. Her research focuses on Black Studies methodology, questions of identity across the African diaspora, and the expansive significance of religious traditions . Along with a number of scholarly articles, she is the author of Lineage: Religious Culture & the (Re)Makings of Ethnic Identity in the African Diaspora and editor of the collection An Introduction to Black Psychology . In this conversation, we discuss the origins of Black Studies as a discipline, the contributions and challenges of Africological approaches to the field, and how Black Studies methodologies shape and reshape ethical, political…

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