Breaking Silos

Breaking Silos is a podcast that engages in deep discussions about guests’ scholarship and the ways that scholarship may help teach or assess language and communication in college classrooms.

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Episodes

Episode 4 with Henry A. Giroux: Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

In this episode, Asao and Shane talk with Henry A. Giroux, who holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, about his essay, “Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: Connecting the Personal and the Political.” Their conversation focuses on personal, political, and historical elements shaping identities, empowering young people, corporate power and greed, bearing witness, and more just and sustainable...

Mar 13, 2024•57 min

Episode 3 with Frank B. Wilderson III: Afropessimism

In this episode, Asao and Shane talk with Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine where he teaches in the African American Studies Department and the Culture & Theory Doctoral Program, about his book, Afropessimism. Their conversation focuses on Blackness as a lens of interpretation, theories of liberation, Black suffering, violence, and teaching writing.

Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 26 min

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