New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Joining me this Sunday afternoon, in the 5 o'clock hour, Lewis R. Gordon, discussing his most recent book, What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought. Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; European Union Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France; and Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa. His books include Existentia Africana; Disciplinary Decadence; An Introduction to Africana Philosophy; and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age.
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Gordon takes into account scholars from across the Global South to address controversies around Fanon’s writings on gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond colonial paradigms.
“Gordon allows us to read Fanon in new and different ways, contextualizing his thought in a wide arc of knowledge—from St. Augustine and traditional Akan philosophy to contemporaries such as De Beauvoir, Sartre, and Senghor, to more recent continental philosophers. Along the way, Gordon incorporates relevant debates from contemporary theoretical movements such as critical race theory. What Fanon Said is a provocative and illuminating study.”—Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley
"In the hands of Lewis Gordon, What Fanon Said, becomes what Frantz Fanon says to us today. The book brings alive the revolutionary thought and practice of Fanon into the continuing struggles for structural economic, political, social, and psychic transformations of our world. The struggle against anti-black racism is an integral part of it, and Gordon's Fanon is the many-sided thinker who saw it all and give it words of fire in his works, particularly Black Skin, White Masks and The Damned of the Earth."—Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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Jazz
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Sunday 6/28/2015 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Mingus | Ysabel's Table Dance | Tijuana Moods | RCA | |
| Tommy Flanagan Trio | Eclypso | Overseas | Prestige | |
| Edward Kamau Brathwaite | Calypso | Rights of Passage | Argo (U.K.) | |
| Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto | E Preciso Perdoar (One Must Forgive) | Getz / Gilberto '76 | Resonance Records | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Sonny Rollins | Mangoes | The Sound of Sonny | Riverside | |
| Clark Terry with Thelonious Monk | Moonlight Fiesta | In Orbit | Riverside | |
| Kenny Dorham | Afrodisia | Afro-Cuban | Blue Note | |
| Hank Mobley Quartet | Avila & Tequila | Hank Mobley Quartet | Blue Note | |
| Claude McKay | The Tropics in New York | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
| Billie Holiday | Speak Low | All or Nothing at All | Verve | |
| Nat King Cole featuring Juan Tizol | The Lonely One | After Midnight | Capitol | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Calvin C. Hernton | Jitterbugging in the Streets | New Jazz Poets | Broadside Records | |
| Hamiet Bluiett | Bouka | Nali Kola | Soul Note | |
| Hamiet Bluiett featuring Quincy Troupe | Snake Back Solos | Nali Kola | Soul Note | |
| Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra | Rocket # 9 Take Off for the Planet Venus | Interstellar Low Ways | El Saturn | |
| Ray Charles | Sinner's Prayer | Hallellujah I Love Her So! | Atlantic | |
| Ray Charles | Funny (But I Still Love You) | Hallellujah I Love Her So! | Atlantic | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto | Eu Vim da Bahia | Getz / Gilberto '76 | Resonance Records | |
| Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto | Retrato em Branco e Preto | Getz / Gilberto '76 | Resonance Records | |
| Audre Lorde | From the House of Yemanje | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Records | |
| Amiri Baraka | Strunza Med | New Music New Poetry | India Navigation | |
| Red Garland Quintet | Birk's Works | Soul Junction | Prestige | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Stan Getz Quartet | Con Alma (excerpt) | Sweet Rain | Verve | |
| Interview with Lewis R. Gordon by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Lewis R. Gordon by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Lewis R. Gordon by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Lewis R. Gordon by Justin Desmangles | |
| Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis | Django | Legrand Jazz | Columbia | |