Season 2: #5 - Lavelle Porter, The Blackademic Life

Topics Discussed in this Episode:Lavelle's recently published book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual .Lavelle's favorite Black academic novels, including The Mad Man, Erasure, Glyph, I'm Not Sidney Poitier, and The Chosen Place, The Timeless People.  Lavelle's motivation for writing the book and his journey.Responses to the book related to the current political climate and the current moment in higher education.How Lavelle used his acknowlegements as a space to address the experience of writing while working at a teaching-intensive institution.Historical changes to the experiences of Black academics and experiences in historically Black colleges and universities vs. predominantly white institutions.The biggest challenges facing Black scholars today and the role of allies in improving working conditions.Hope for the future of higher ed in Black Lives Matter and student activism.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Lavelle PorterThe Blackademic LIfe: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black IntellectualBlack PerspectivesCLAGS Center for LGBTQ studiesSamuel Delaney's The Mad ManPercival Everett's Erasure, Glyph, and I'm Not Sidney PoitierPaule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless PeopleIshmael Reed's Japanese By SpringKiese Laymon's Long DivisionKristina Quynn's piece in The Chronicle of Higher Ed Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.