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Macalester Podcasts
In celebration of Black History Month, Macalester's Faculty Talks asks four professors what events in African American history stand out for them and what part it plays in American history.
February 27, 2006
Professor Peter Rachleff
conducts research in U.S. labor, immigration and African American history. He teaches courses in these areas, as well as theme-focused courses between the Civil War and World War II. For this episode, he talks about the migration of African Americans from the South to the industrialized North during the early 1900s and how that migration affects urban areas of the North today.
Time: 10m 31s
Listen: MP3
February 17, 2006
Professor Leola Johnson focuses on media representations of African Americans in news and entertainment, especially sports and music, as well as on women and African Americans who work in media industries. Johnson was a regular guest on the program ?Mental Engineering,? which aired on public television stations around the country. This week she discusses the image of Black women in the media and how it has changed over the last century.
Time: 6m 14s
Listen: MP3
February 10, 2006
Dean Jane Rhodes interests include race and mass media and African American history and culture. She is a former newspaper and radio reporter and producer. In this episode she talks about Macalester's American Studies Conference and how it relates to Hurricane Katrina.
Time: 8m 50s
Listen: MP3
February
3, 2006
Professor Daylanne English has teaching and research interests
in the areas of African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance,
American modernism, Anglophone Caribbean literature, as well as
working-class studies and race and film studies. Here, she discusses
the effect that Frederick Douglass has made in her life as an academic
and the importance of his narrative.
Time: 8m 37s,
Listen: MP3
 Special:
February 2, 2006
Listen to the discussion on the Palestinian elections with Professors
Ahmad Ahmad of Religious Studies, Mohammed Bamyeh of International
Studies and Andy Overman of the Classics Department. They talk about
their potential impact on the peace process, and what they signal
in terms of changes across the region.
Time: 10 m (estimate, each varies slightly)
Professor Ahmad Ahmad: MP3
Professor Mohammed Bamyeh: MP3
Professor Andy Overman: MP3
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