Season 2: #5 - Lavelle Porter, The Blackademic Life

In this episode of Rocking the Academy, co-hosts Roopika Risam and Mary Churchill talk with Lavelle Porter, author of The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual, and Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology. We talk with Lavelle about his recently published book, the experiences of Black academics, and some of the biggest challenges facing Black scholars today. Find us on Twitter: @roopikarisam, @mary_churchill, and @alavelleporter.

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Rocking the Academy, hosted by Mary Churchill and Roopika Risam, brings you conversations with the very best truth tellers who are formulating a different vision of the university. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Press