Science Fictions: Race, Biology, and Superhumanity
03/04/22 • 49 min
On this podcast, we have addressed different dimensions of scientific racism from COVID-19 disparity data to the uses of human remains in anthropology.
The Culture of...Jacque Smith and Cassie Spodak, “Black or 'Other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health,” CNN, June 7, 2021
Ezra Turner, “MOVE Bombing Remains Scandal Shows Enduring Racism in Anthropology,” Teen Vogue, July 16, 2021
The Breakdown - Guest Info(Photo credit: Becca Skinner / Day's Edge Productions)
Shane Campbell-Staton (https://www.campbellstaton.com/)
Shane Campbell-Staton is an Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He comes to us from UCLA where he was jointly appointed in the Institute for Society and Genetics. His research group focuses on evolution in the Anthropocene, studying animal performance, gene expression and genomics to understand the lasting biological impacts of our human footprint. In addition to his scientific work, Shane hosts the popular podcast “The Biology of Superheroes,” with Arien Darby.
(Photo credit: Princeton University)
Ayah Nuriddin (https://sf.princeton.edu/people/ayah-nuriddin)
Ayah Nuriddin is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton’s Society of Fellows, as well as a lecturer in the Council of Humanities and African American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. Ayah’s work shows how African Americans have navigated questions of racial science, eugenics, and hereditarianism in relation to struggles for racial justice since the nineteenth century. She is also interested in how race and scientific racism shape discourses and activism around health inequality. Ayah is working on a book manuscript, “Seed and Soil: Black Eugenic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” and teaches courses at Princeton like “Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History.”
See, Hear, DoShane Cambpell-Staton and Arien Darby, The Biology of Superheroes Podcast
Ayah Nuriddin, “African Americans and Eugenics,” C-SPAN American History TV, January 5, 2018
Terence Keel, Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Stanford University Press, 2018)
PBS: American Experience, The Eugenics Crusade, October 16, 2018
Alexander Glustrom, Mossville: When Great Trees Fall (Fire River Films, 2020)
On this podcast, we have addressed different dimensions of scientific racism from COVID-19 disparity data to the uses of human remains in anthropology.
The Culture of...Jacque Smith and Cassie Spodak, “Black or 'Other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health,” CNN, June 7, 2021
Ezra Turner, “MOVE Bombing Remains Scandal Shows Enduring Racism in Anthropology,” Teen Vogue, July 16, 2021
The Breakdown - Guest Info(Photo credit: Becca Skinner / Day's Edge Productions)
Shane Campbell-Staton (https://www.campbellstaton.com/)
Shane Campbell-Staton is an Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He comes to us from UCLA where he was jointly appointed in the Institute for Society and Genetics. His research group focuses on evolution in the Anthropocene, studying animal performance, gene expression and genomics to understand the lasting biological impacts of our human footprint. In addition to his scientific work, Shane hosts the popular podcast “The Biology of Superheroes,” with Arien Darby.
(Photo credit: Princeton University)
Ayah Nuriddin (https://sf.princeton.edu/people/ayah-nuriddin)
Ayah Nuriddin is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton’s Society of Fellows, as well as a lecturer in the Council of Humanities and African American Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. Ayah’s work shows how African Americans have navigated questions of racial science, eugenics, and hereditarianism in relation to struggles for racial justice since the nineteenth century. She is also interested in how race and scientific racism shape discourses and activism around health inequality. Ayah is working on a book manuscript, “Seed and Soil: Black Eugenic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” and teaches courses at Princeton like “Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History.”
See, Hear, DoShane Cambpell-Staton and Arien Darby, The Biology of Superheroes Podcast
Ayah Nuriddin, “African Americans and Eugenics,” C-SPAN American History TV, January 5, 2018
Terence Keel, Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Stanford University Press, 2018)
PBS: American Experience, The Eugenics Crusade, October 16, 2018
Alexander Glustrom, Mossville: When Great Trees Fall (Fire River Films, 2020)
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Two events in 1921—more than a thousand miles apart—had a profound impact on African American history: the production of the all-Black musical Shuffle Along and the Tulsa race massacre. A century on, an online workshop held at Princeton, Reactivating Memory, sought to explore the relationship between these seemingly disparate events and consider their legacy in Black life today. Our host Mélena Laudig sat down with Michael J. Love, A.J. Mohammed, and Dr. Catherine M. Young, all contributors to the team that organized this fascinating workshop. Tune in to learn more about how they balance performance, scholarship, and activism, and to dig into the history of Shuffle Along and the legacy of Black theatrical practice.
The Culture of...Brian D. Valencia, “Musical of the Month: Shuffle Along,” NYPL Blog, February 10, 2012
“Show Clips: SHUFFLE ALONG, Starring Audra McDonald,” Broadwaycom, May 10, 2016
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A Painter’s Eye
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A Painter’s Eye
In this episode, we sit down with the legendary historian and artist Nell Painter to discuss her career and its connections to Black Studies. From reckoning with historical figures as individuals, to her life and work at Princeton, to her own works-in-progress, this podcast has something for everyone. Our hosts dive deep into Painter’s legacy and the lessons she has for our present moment.
The Culture of __“This new and 'old' artist offers a self-portrait in starting over,” PBS NewsHour, July 23, 2018
“Nell Painter: Old In Art School,” GBH Forum Network, July 31, 2018
The Breakdown - Guest InfoNell Irvin Painter (nellpainter.com)
Nell Irvin Painter is Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita at Princeton University. She was Director of Princeton's Program in African-American Studies from 1997 to 2000. In addition to her doctorate in history from Harvard University, she has received honorary doctorates from Wesleyan, Dartmouth, SUNY-New Paltz, and Yale. Prof. Painter has published numerous books, articles, reviews, and other essays, including The History of White People. She has served on numerous editorial boards and as an officer of many different professional organizations, including the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Antiquarian Society, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the Association of Black Women Historians.
Nell Painter (the painter formerly known as the historian Nell Irvin Painter) lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. Her work carries discursive as well as visual meaning, and is made in a manual and digital process. Using found images and digital manipulation, she reconfigures the past and self-revision through self-portraits. After a life of historical truth and political engagement with American society, her artwork represents freedom, including the freedom to be totally self-centered.
See, Hear, Do- “The Extraordinary Women of AAS Featuring Nell Painter,” Princeton University Department of African American Studies, March 28, 2022
- Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History Across the Color Line (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021 [2002])
- Nell Painter, “American Whiteness Since Trump,” James Fuentes Gallery, 2020
- “Nell Painter and Black Power in Print,” Museum of Fine Arts Boston, November 15, 2021
- “Nell Irvin Painter to Deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture,” American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting, Friday, April 29, 2022 @ 6:00 PM EST (registration in link)
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