This dialogue features media historian Dr. Jane Rhodes, who tends to “think back as well as forward,” and media sociologist Dr. Herman Gray, who asks a guiding question of Black media studies, “What does Black add to [the] formulation [of Black media studies]?”
“Perhaps there’s a kind of freedom in artmaking, in some ways, that allows all of these phenomenon to come together in ways the purely academic projects strain”
“We could imagine what freedom feels like, not just looks like, through the arts…if we can’t imagine it, we can’t feel it”