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EPISODE · Feb 28, 2025 · 1H 7M

Zebulon Miletsky - Department of Africana Studies, Stony Brook University

from The Black Studies Podcast · host Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Zebulon Miletsky, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. In addition to a number of public facing and scholarly pieces, he is the author of Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle. In this discussion, we explore the nature of Black Studies inquiry, the link between Black study and public knowledge, and the future culture and politics of the field..

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Zebulon Miletsky, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. In addition to a number of public facing and scholarly pieces, he is the author of Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle. In this discussion, we explore the nature of Black Studies inquiry, the link between Black study and public knowledge, and the future culture and politics of the field..

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