237: The Sexy Symbolism of Sinners
May 01, 2025•2 hr 13 min
Episode description
Chelsea and James discuss the dense, delicious box office darling Sinners.
Researcher Bella's notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_yB-JKcHqwRk7xz2CSk_g2bcginaefLVV3qxmekJn4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.r46gewbc2qhs
Chelsea's research notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mi3YVbi2-nvSQAibZPqUe0C1T_mvL4Xn/view?usp=drive_link
SOURCES:
Carnegie Hall's timeline of African American music https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2022/01/11/Timeline-of-African-American-Music
https://musicforwardfoundation.org/news/exploring-the-history-of-black-music-month/
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/irish/racial-tensions/
https://celticjunction.org/cjac/arts-review/issue-13-samhain-2020/frederick-douglass-found-freedom-in-ireland/
https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/historypolitics/frederick-douglass-exile-in-ireland-1845/
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/irish-african-american-relations
https://sites.pitt.edu/~hirtle/uujec/white.html
https://infiniteculture.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/on-the-link-between-african-and-irish-music/
https://folkways.si.edu/blending-african-and-irish-sensibilities-in-virginias-music/music/tools-for-teaching/smithsonian
https://www.southerncultures.org/article/blacks-and-irish-on-the-riverine-frontiers-the-roots-of-american-popular-music/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/sinners-meaning-behind-ryan-coogler-movie-1236197916/
https://wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/north-carolina/durham-food-history/sharecropping-black-land-acquisition-and-white-supremacy-1868-1900/
https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-sharecropping/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/harvest-sharecropping-slavery-rerouted/
https://www.history.com/articles/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/kindred-spirits-irish-native-american-solidarity
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2023/how-ireland-served-as-a-laboratory-for-the-british-empire/
https://daily.jstor.org/britains-blueprint-for-colonialism-made-in-ireland/
https://www.aaihs.org/the-historical-roots-of-blues-music/
https://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-prison-labor-african-americans-arkansas-622209
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