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Podcast: Black History Year
Episode: The (De)construction of Black Masculine Identity with Marlon Ross (July 2024)
Description: Gender has shaped and continues to shape much of our lives. It tells boys to wear blue and girls to wear pink, dictates what careers are “appropriate” as adults, and even has a say in how we’re expected to express our feelings. But in the tradition of Black resistance, our people have pushed back against these arbitrary rules.In July 2024, new host Darren Wallace talked about that and much more with Marlon B. Ross, an incredible scholar working at the intersection of literature, race, gender, and sexuality.As the au...