S E1284: In Class with Carr, Ep. 284: Foundational Blackness
In Class with Carr
Knarrative
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In the United States, the back-to-school season signals more than just a return to “traditional” classrooms—in a moment of open white nationalist warfare on our common humanity, it is also a moment for renewed reflection on origins, connections, and relationships. This fall, a new iteration of that search in the discipline of Africana Studies takes shape with the launch of “The Black University,” an open public course running in parallel with a Howard University class that initiates students into a deeper investigation of the meaning and purpose of Black educational institutions.
Rooted in our ongoing project to “Jailbreak the Black University,” the course will center on uncovering the origins of Africana Ways of Knowing, Governance formations, and the search for connected traces of Movement and Memory. As our annual Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Study Tour draws to a close, we are guided by a central conviction: A search for “foundational Blackness” is essential to understanding and advancing the intellectual and cultural traditions of the African world.
This pursuit of “foundational Blackness”—tracing the origins, structures, and living memory of Africana educational and cultural practices—is a critical effort for reimagining and revitalizing Black institutions today.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
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| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
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| 0:56.5 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to in class with Carr. |
| 0:59.5 | This is a space where during the pandemic, we imagined what it would look like to teach a class online that would be for the world. |
| 1:07.5 | And it started with a simple question. Can I press record? It was a question that I asked of the |
| 1:12.9 | people's professor, Dr. Gray Carr. At the time, he was the head of Africana Studies at Howard |
| 1:17.8 | University. He's still teaching the world. And in this space, we have been going strong since |
| 1:23.1 | 2020, and it has been amazing. So tune in to In Class with Carr and thank you for joining us. |
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| 1:46.3 | Good everything. Greetings and salutations and good evening. Oh, no, we don't need to see all of that. |
| 1:51.8 | Okay. Hey. That's all good. My San Cofa hoodie on. I'm just sitting here packing, |
| 1:59.8 | repacking and stuff. Everything's good. What's going on |
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