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Since he arrived at Duke in 2004, after teaching at three other universities, fifty-year-old Neal has been challenging some foundational assumptions about higher education: whose history is worth studying; who should be called a student or a teacher; how much distance scholars must put between themselves and their subject matters; what type of language belongs […]

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When a Race Man’s Color is Purple

June 21, 2016

In the May issue of Ebony magazine, Mark Anthony Neal writes: “When an icon such as Prince Rogers Nelson transitions, he becomes a torch for both nostalgia and the power of music to unite, proving an artist could transcend race… The myth of his mixed-race identity even foregrounds his cinematic breakthrough with Purple Rain. But Prince’s […]

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‘Bad/Dangerous/Invincible: Michael Jackson’s Epic Years’

June 7, 2016

From Off the Wall to Invincible, Michael Jackson’s recordings on Epic Records chronicle the artist’s evolution to become one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Author and Duke University Professor of Black Popular Culture, Mark Anthony Neal, will take the audience behind the music for a look at Jackson’s resounding impact on […]

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Time Traveling With Hip-Hop

May 20, 2016

For a moment, imagine a little girl in the American South, watching her uncles — mid-20th century blues men, with harmonicas, guitars, bottles, standing in the round, telling their stories. And then suddenly a flash of the spirit, what Robert Farris Thompson, might describe as a rupture in the space, time, rhythm continuum, and that […]

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Category Archives: CADCE Slideshow

Author Marc Lamont Hill to Speak at Duke, Sept. 29

This Professor is His Own MAN

When a Race Man’s Color is Purple

‘Bad/Dangerous/Invincible: Michael Jackson’s Epic Years’

Time Traveling With Hip-Hop