S E1268: In Class with Carr, Episode 268: We're All Sinners!

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

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

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

The rapid success of Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners provides an ideal text for analysis through the Africana Studies Disciplinary Framework. As we explore some of the film’s central themes, it becomes clear how both the film itself and responses to it reflect intersections of the Social Structure and Governance Disciplinary Conceptual Categories. Rooted in self-determination—both as a cinematic work and a commercial project—Sinners offers repeated examples of Africana African Ways of Knowing, Cultural Meaning-Making, and Movement and Memory. Through its use of icons, shrines, totems, and rituals, and by blending and at once renegotiating elements of The Blues and Horror as both concept and genre, the film opens a powerful space for commentary on culture, race, allyship, appropriation, resistance, and the varied and at once strikingly similar world senses of African peoples. Sinners contrasts the temporary conditions of our physical existence with how humans imagine the eternal realms from which we emerge and to which we ultimately return.

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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. Slim in hell.
0:57.1	Slim Greer went to heaven.
0:58.5	St. Peter said,
1:02.4	Slim, you've been a right good boy, and he winked at him.
1:05.4	You've been a traveling rascal in your day.
1:07.7	You can roam once more.
1:09.2	Then you comes to stay.
1:12.8	Put these wings on your shoulders and save your feet.
1:20.0	Slim grin and he speak up. Thank you, Pete. Then Peter say, go to hell and see all that is doing and report to me. Be sure to remember how everything goes. Slim say, I be seeing you on the late watch watchbow. Slim got to cavort and swell as you choose,
1:31.4	like Lindy in the spirit of St. Louis Blues. He flew and he flew till at last he hit a hanger with the sign
1:38.8	reading, this is it. Then he parked his wings and strolled around, getting used to his feet on the solid ground.
1:47.0	Big Bloodhound come a roaring like Niagara Falls, sicked on by white devils in overhauls.
1:54.0	Now Slim weren't scared. Cross my heart, it's a fact. And the dog went on a bay in some Poe Devil's track.
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