S1 FINALE EP14 - BLACK STUDIES W/BLACK STUDIES DEGREE STUDENTS: "Ethnic Cleansing" in the Carrribean, Privy "Colonial" Council, David "No Reparations" Cameron, Being a BCU Black Studies Student + more
In this week's Black World News, Kehinde Andrews discusses a current case in Barbuda being fought about the construction of a new private airport and beach developments by largely US, UK, and Chinese foreigners. It's a fight by local "land defenders" against foreign multinationals carving up the island for tourism, "freedom," and tax reduction purposes. Developers are destroying the island's resources, including food security, culture, and livelihoods This case is part of a larger problem with the Carribean's legacy as slave colonies.
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This is going to be the final episode of Season 1 of MIP's Black Studies Podcast Series, we hope you've enjoyed it! To wrap it up, this week Kehinde Andrews asks a mixture of Black Studies undergraduates and MA students from all three Black Studies degree courses at Birmingham City Uni (@MYBCU) about their POVs of the course. The students featured are Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte. The courses are pretty much all female students currently.
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BLACK WORLD NEWS LINKS
Barbudans battle for island in London court
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-news/2023/11/08/barbudans-battle-for-island-in-london-court/
Gov’t to finance new prison itself – Chang
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20200608/govt-finance-new-prison-itself-chang
‘Black face of white supremacy’
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/features-news/2023/11/02/black-face-of-white-supremacy/
Voice Online: Britain's Favourite Black Newspaper
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/
Proudjamaicans (reel about neo-colonization of Jamaica's beaches)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxojVXwxFiF/
Biographies of the Justices
https://www.jcpc.uk/about/biographies-of-the-justices.html
David Cameron rules out slavery reparation during Jamaica visit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34401412
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GUEST INTERVIEW LINKS
Birmingham City University
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/
BLACK STUDIES (CRIMINAL JUSTICE) - BA (HONS)
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-in-criminal-justice-ba-hons-2024-25
BLACK STUDIES - BA (HONS)
https://bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ba-hons-2024-25
BLACK STUDIES - MA
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/black-studies-ma-2024-25
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Guest: Eileen, Nae, Esther, Laura, Fonce, and Charlotte (Black Studies Students)
Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T)
Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso
Platform: www.make-it-plain.org (Web) | www.youtube.com/@MakeItPlain1964 (YT)
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THE PSYCHOSIS OF WHITENESS: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
By Kehinde Andrews
Buy the Book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476
Make It Plain Podcast
Every Week We’re Making Plain What’s Happening in the Black World and Interviewing Guests You Need to Hear.
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We launched S2 of the Make It Plain (MIP) Podcast to coincide with the historic founding of the Organisation of Afro-America Unity (OAAU). Malcolm X announced the establishment of the OAAU at a public meeting in New York's Audubon Ballroom sixty years ago, on June 28, 1964.
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Make It Plain (MIP) is an independent media platform, the editorial wing of Harambee OBU (HOBU), and a go-to-hub for Black radical politics.
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The host, Kehinde Andrews, teaches as a professor at Birmingham City University (BCU) where he co-led with Dr. Dionne Taylor the set-up of the first and only award-winning Black Studies BA + MA program in Europe, the chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity (HOBU), and editor-in-chief of Make It Plain. He is the author of "Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century" (2018), its prequel "The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World" (2021) and his latest "The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World" out in Sept 2023.
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W: www.make-it-plain.org, www.blackunity.org.uk
IG: @makeitplainorg @kehindeandrews @harambeeobu
X: @makeitplainorg @kehinde_andrews @HarambeeOBU
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Written and hosted: Kehinde Andrews
Executive production: Weyland McKenzie-Witter
Coordination, socials + publishing: Oliver Luke Taylor
Socials input: Djeneba Deby Bagayoko
YouTube: Kadiri (Kehinde's son)
Theme music is "Patience" by Weyland McKenzie and AyChibs
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