We are back with a special, two-part episode with Grégory Pierrot and Anthony C. Alessandrini about the politics and poetics of translation and much, much more!

Grégory Pierrot is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of Decolonize Hipsters (OR Books, 2021), The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019) and co-editor of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2022) and Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke, 2013). He is also a co-host of the webseries Decolonize That!   

Anthony C. Alessandrini is a writer and public educator based in New York. He is the author of Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics; the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-editor of “Resistance Everywhere”. He has also published a poetry chapbook, Children Imitating Cormorants. He teaches English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is a member of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change. He is also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, a Co-Convener of the International Solidarity Action Research Network (ISARN), and an active member of the Palestine solidarity movement. 

Some of the work discussed in the first part of this wonderfully rich, stimulating, and wide-ranging conversation:  

• Sophia Azeb’s piece on the Pan-African Cultural Festival of 1969 in The Funambulist 
• Paul Gilroy’s Against Race 
• Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance, edited by H. L. T. Quan.  
• Alberto Toscano's "The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism"
• Grégory Pierrot’s Decolonize Hipsters  
• Roderick Ferguson’s We Demand: The University and Student Protests  
• Angela Davis’s Lectures on Liberation 
• Anthony C. Alessandrini, The Lived Experience of Social Construction and Decolonize Multiculturalism 
• Chelsea Stieber’s “John Brown Had a Sick Beard”  

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