S E1286: In Class with Carr, Ep. 286: Labors of Love!

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

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

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In the US Social Structure, Labor Day weekend is both a ritual of Summer’s ending and a potential lens for examining how labor, Cultural Meaning-Making and love in Africana Ways of Knowing fuel the Momentum of Movement and Memory. In the rituals of this season, from the Annual West Indian American Labor Day Parade to anniversaries of the 1963 March on Washington and the 1955 murder of Emmett Louis Till which prompted the March’s August 28 date, Africana Studies opens a window for us to think how celebration intertwines with struggle. Africana Ways of Knowing commingle the work of justice and memory, prompting us to also consider how and where we spend our labor and what we owe to past and future generations. True “labors of love” emerge in lives and communities that choose self-governance and self-determination over blind compliance with oppression and that resist exploitation and affirm human dignity across time and space.

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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
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0:49.5	join us there. Stay tuned.
0:54.0	Mr. Pyle, who was the person who actually invented steel pan?
0:59.0	By co-incident, by a co-incident, it just happened.
1:06.0	And I could go through there to tell you that.
1:10.0	Anyone who tried to claim he had invented the steel ban out of context.
1:18.6	No one person could take claim that they invented a pan.
1:23.6	Because during the period of 1935, still bamboo during the carnival period they just disappeared
1:32.3	right and looking to incident during that time the guys from Gonzales used to be beaten the taboo by
1:43.3	and at the same time in the yard that they was practicing with a yard used to be beating the tambou bamboo bamboo and at the same time in the yard that they was practicing with a yard you used to call Tanti-Billiard.
1:49.0	It had a old chassis car chassis there and while they're beating the bamboo a guy used to be knocking it, knocking the chassis with that song
1:59.0	and by a coincidence,
2:01.6	and a boxing name,
2:04.6	one of the guys beating the bamboo split.
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