For my Fulbright Community Engagement project in Senegal, I hope to nurture my scholarly interests in Body Politics, hair, beauty culture, race, and popular media as sites of creativity and politics. While interviewing Dr. Mamadou Bodian, excitedly, we discussed Dr. Mamadou's research on identity formation and religion in relation to my budding research interests on identity formation and Black hair. I found Dr. Mamadou's gentle encouragement to view concepts like "identity" and "individuality" as communal concepts rather than isolating thoughts, feelings and memories to be both complex and inspiring. I believe a conversation on Black hair creates a necessary entry-point to understand the intimate aspects of our lived experiences both together, and separately.
Favorite Quote: "Knowing others is also a way of knowing yourself..." -Dr. MB
I hope you enjoy our first episode of season 4 for MCN! Host & Founder: Lauren Stockmon Brown. Music: “Jealous,” Fireboy (Instrumental)
The Beauty & Challenges of Studying Caribbean Playwriting, Kay Kemp (PhD Candidate)
Investigating The Art of Being a Diplomat, Fareed Abdullah
Audio Essay Reflection: To Be Free
”Black Hair Is The Root of Pan-Africanism,” (Audio Segment) MCN Event 6/16/2022
”People Are Like Waves,” (Short Story: Audio Version)
Dr. Korka Sall (PhD)- ”Believe in Your Natural Power.”
Alioune Sene- ”I Evolved.”
Why Black Hair Matters (with Dr. Kari Williams, PhD)
"We Got Us Now: Children of Incarcerated Parents."
Post Election Liberation Dreams
Sports Activism, Influence & Leverage
Harlem Globetrotters' Belief in Sports Activism
Vanessa Williams & Identity Politics
History of the "N Word" & Respectability Politics
Education is Our Modern Civil Rights Movement
Bending Gender Norms & Finding Creativity
Making Believers in Unprecedented Times
Type Casting Black Hair
Legally Bald
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