Lavelle Porter's guest appearances

Lavelle Porter

Nostalgia Trap

Rocking the Academy

Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Conner Habib

Elisa Lam

Thomas Frank

Noam Chomsky

Yasmin Nair

Walt Whitman

Stephen King

Jason Wilson

Anna Wintour

Daniel Pinchbeck

Eddie Pepitone

Thaddeus Russell

Amanda Knox

Sarah Taber

Eileen Jones

OwlTail

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Click here for the episode notes: <a href="https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/season-5-ep-8-dr-lavelle-porter-on-the-blackademic-life-and-walt-whitmans-racism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ivorytowerboilerroom.com/season-5-ep-8-dr-lavelle-porter-on-the-blackademic-life-and-walt-whitmans-racism/</a>. Make sure to follow Dr. Lavelle Porter on Twitter, @alavelleporter. You can purchase Lavelle's "The Blackademic Life" here: <a href="https://wordsmatterbookstore.com/item/HYgveKOG2RtzS2Wi-cL3Eg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wordsmatterbookstore.com/item/HYgveKOG2RtzS2Wi-cL3Eg</a> Follow us on Instagram, @ivorytowerboilerroom and Twitter, @ivoryboilerroom. Want to message us or be an upcoming guest? Email us at ivorytowerboilerroom@gmail.com. Donate and support us by clicking the green Donate button on <a href="http://ivorytowerboilerroom.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ivorytowerboilerroom.com</a>. Thanks to Anne Sophie Andersen for our October Theme Song...Scorpio! Check out a trailer for "Seasons" here. <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cMAVZWwQg&amp;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cMAVZWwQg&amp;feature=youtu.be</a> Composer: Anne Sophie Andersen Dancer: Daisy Payero Video: Cecilie Beck Kronborg --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ivorytowerboilerroom/support</a>

Dr. Lavelle Porter on The Blackademic Life and Antiracist Pedagogy 

Topics Discussed in this Episode:Lavelle's recently published book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual .Lavelle's favorite Black academic novels, including The Mad Man, Erasure, Glyph, I'm Not Sidney Poitier, and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.  Lavelle's motivation for writing the book and his journey.Responses to the book related to the current political climate and the current moment in higher education.How Lavelle used his acknowlegements as a space to address the experience of writing while working at a teaching-intensive institution.Historical changes to the experiences of Black academics and experiences in historically Black colleges and universities vs. predominantly white institutions.The biggest challenges facing Black scholars today and the role of allies in improving working conditions.Hope for the future of higher ed in Black Lives Matter and student activism.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Lavelle PorterThe Blackademic LIfe: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black IntellectualBlack PerspectivesCLAGS Center for LGBTQ studiesSamuel Delaney's The Mad ManPercival Everett's Erasure, Glyph, and I'm Not Sidney PoitierPaule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless PeopleIshmael Reed's Japanese By SpringKiese Laymon's Long DivisionKristina Quynn's piece in The Chronicle of Higher Ed Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:<ul><li>Lavelle's recently published book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual .</li><li>Lavelle's favorite Black academic novels, including The Mad Man, Erasure, Glyph, I'm Not Sidney Poitier, and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.  </li><li>Lavelle's motivation for writing the book and his journey.</li><li>Responses to the book related to the current political climate and the current moment in higher education.</li><li>How Lavelle used his acknowlegements as a space to address the experience of writing while working at a teaching-intensive institution.</li><li>Historical changes to the experiences of Black academics and experiences in historically Black colleges and universities vs. predominantly white institutions.</li><li>The biggest challenges facing Black scholars today and the role of allies in improving working conditions.</li><li>Hope for the future of higher ed in Black Lives Matter and student activism.</li></ul>Resources Discussed in this Episode:<ul><li><a href="https://lavelleporter.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lavelle Porter</a></li><li><a href="https://press.library.northwestern.edu/content/blackademic-life" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Blackademic LIfe: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual</a></li><li><a href="https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Perspectives</a></li><li><a href="https://clags.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CLAGS Center for LGBTQ studies</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Man" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Samuel Delaney's The Mad Man</a></li><li><a href="https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003237" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Percival Everett's Erasure, Glyph, and I'm Not Sidney Poitier</a></li><li><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/108031/the-chosen-place-the-timeless-people-by-paule-marshall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People</a></li><li><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/329165/japanese-by-spring-by-ishmael-reed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ishmael Reed's Japanese By Spring</a></li><li><a href="https://www.kieselaymon.com/long-division" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kiese Laymon's Long Division</a></li><li><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191216-DisgustingCampusNovel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kristina Quynn's piece in The Chronicle of Higher Ed</a></li></ul> Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Season 2: #5 - Lavelle Porter, The Blackademic Life

Lavelle Porter is a writer and professor of English at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology. He joins us to discuss his new book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual, which explores representations of black intellectual life from the Reconstruction Era to today. Along the way we touch on the lesser-known fictional works of W.E.B. DuBois, the rise of Black Studies on college campuses in the 1960s and 1970s, the complicated, tragic legacy of Bill Cosby, and the evolving conversation about higher education in 21st century hip hop. 

Lavelle Porter is a writer and professor of English at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology. He joins us to discuss his new book <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvr33dbd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual</a>, which explores representations of black intellectual life from the Reconstruction Era to today. Along the way we touch on the lesser-known fictional works of W.E.B. DuBois, the rise of Black Studies on college campuses in the 1960s and 1970s, the complicated, tragic legacy of Bill Cosby, and the evolving conversation about higher education in 21st century hip hop.

Nostalgia Trap - Episode 175: The Blackademic Life w/ Lavelle Porter