Episode IX: Pro-Blackness... Cancelling Our Own

Favorite Librarian, the Podcast

This week, Your Favorite Librarian explores Pro-Blackness and Cancel Culture. This episode examines how Cancel Culture supports some traditional definitions and shapes expressions of Pro-Blackness. Throughout the episode, Your Favorite Librarian also illustrates the cornerstone of Cancel Culture and how gatekeeping, in an act to protect and preserve Black Culture and Excellence may not be the best approach for all contributors of the Black Experience.
This week's reading selections in includes the following:
"Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist" by Franchesca Ramsey
"Hidden Legacies: African Presence in European Antiques" by Tanzy Ward
"A Black Theology of Liberation: 20th Anniversary Edition" by James H. Cone
"Blaxhaustion, Karens and Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being" by Theresa M. Robinson
Episode IX also specifically explores gender and race-based emotions, White Complicity and Performance Wokeness, History or Relevance and to whom is the true villain.
From Blaxhaustion, the burden of racial and social injustices and navigating implicit bias in the Black community.. this episode if packed with insight.

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