{"id":26881,"date":"2012-12-10T06:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26881"},"modified":"2012-12-10T06:16:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:16:23","slug":"left-of-black-s2e33-race-writing-and-the-attack-on-black-studies-with-adam-mansbach-and-la-tasha-levy-on-season-finale-of-left-of-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26881","title":{"rendered":"Left of Black S2:E33 | Race, Writing and the Attack on Black Studies with Adam Mansbach and La TaSha Levy on Season Finale of Left of Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left of Black S2:E33 | Race, Writing and the Attack on Black Studies with Adam Mansbach and La TaSha Levy on Season Finale of Left of Black<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Left of Black<\/a>
\nJohn Hope Franklin Center<\/a>
\nDuke University
\n2012-11-19<\/p>\n

Mark Anthony Neal<\/a><\/strong>, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies
\nDuke University<\/em><\/p>\n

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by writer Adam Mansbach<\/a>, the author of several books including Angry Black White Boy<\/a><\/em> (2005), The End of the Jews<\/em>\u00a0 (2008) and the New York Times<\/em> Bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep<\/em>.\u00a0 Mansbach discusses the inspiration for Macon Detornay\u2014the protagonist of Angry Black White Boy<\/em>\u2014the surprise success of his \u201cadult children\u2019s book\u201d and his new graphic novel Nature of the Beast<\/em>.\u00a0 Finally Neal and Mansbach discuss race in the Obama era and the legacy of the Beastie Boys<\/a>…<\/p>\n