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The Podcast for Social ResearchAuthor: The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation's place in a larger web of cultural conversations. Language: en Genres: Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Podcast for Social Research, Episode 99: Delio Vásquez's Huey P. Newton: I am We
Friday, 30 October, 2026
In this episode, Nara Roberta Silva sits down with Delio Vásquez to discuss his newly-published Huey P. Newton: I am We (Polity, 2026), an intellectual biography of the founder, political strategist, and chief theoretician of the Black Panther Party. Together, the two consider Newton's work against the backdrop of the tumultuous politics of the 1960s and 70s, of developments within and beyond the Black Panther Party, and of the violent repression and surveillance to which both Newton and the Party were subject. How, they will ask, did Newton envision the relationship between local liberation struggles and forms of international solidarity? How should lived experience, reason, will, and hope inform our understanding of social transformation and political strategy? And what do the conditions that produced Newton's fall portend about our own political present?
