S E1234: In Class with Carr, Ep. 234: "Seeing Beyond Ourselves!"

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Marking the one hundredth anniversary of Baldwin’s birth and preparing to offer the second iteration of Introduction to Africana Studies in Knubia this September, today’s session explores some of the ways that studying experiences and circumstances of African people requires us to see beyond ourselves, to see our interdependency, and to avoid traps built on political and social exclusion.

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0:00.0	this is karen hunter and welcome to in class with car this is a space where during the pandemic
0:07.7	we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world and it
0:14.4	started with a simple question can i press record it was a question that i asked of the people's professor
0:19.9	dr gray car At the time,
0:22.0	he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard University. He's still teaching the world. And in this
0:26.8	space, we have been going strong since 2020. And it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class
0:33.8	with Carr. And thank you for joining us. You can follow us by the way at
0:37.9	Narrative with a K. Join us Narrative with a K. The K is silent like knowledge. K
0:43.0	N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E narrative.com. If you want to have a deeper relationship with us,
0:49.5	join us there. Stay tuned.
0:52.5	View from here. Now that implies a great many things.
0:58.0	First of all, I'm speaking as an American citizen.
1:02.0	I'm speaking as also as a grandson of a slave.
1:06.0	I'm speaking as a product and a member of a certain democracy,
1:15.6	and is a product and issue of a certain very complex history,
1:24.6	someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded.
1:33.3	Simplicity, it occurs to me, has occurred to me more than once in my somewhat stormy life.
1:43.3	Simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue,
1:49.0	along with sincerity.
1:54.0	And the result of this is,
1:56.0	if you are simple-minded enough,
2:00.0	you can become, I didn't want to go that far.
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