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PMP#56: Black + Nerd = BLERD w/ Anthony LeBlanc

August 11, 2020 by Mark Leave a Comment

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The Interim Executive Producer of The Second City joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to discuss the scope of black nerd-dom: what nerdy properties provide to those who feel “othered,” using sci-fi to talk about race, Black Panther and other heroes, afrofuturism, black anime fans, Star Trek, Key & Peele, Get Out vs. Us, and more.

A few articles you might enjoy:

  • “Blerd Defined” by Rod T. FaulknerĀ 
  • “What Is a Blerd” by Angele Joubert-Johnson
  • “The Rise of the Black Nerd in Pop Culture” by Mekeisha Madden
  • “15 Black Comics Writers Whose Work You Need to Read” by Sam Stone
  • “Why I’m Writing Captain America” by Ta-Nehishi Coates
  • “7 Black Nerd Podcasts to Check Out” from trillmatic.com
  • “The Hugo Awards Just Made History, and Defied Alt-Right Extremists in the Process” by Aja Romano

Some relevant videos and podcasts:

  • The Rundown with Robin Thede: A Race Odyssey 
  • Looking Back at Tomorrow’s Afrofuturism episode 
  • Empire Blerd ep. 23 featuring Sinbad and his son
  • A sample episode of King Vader 
  • Key & Peele on detecting alien impostors 
  • Anthony’s first appearance on Hello from the Magic Tavern 

This episode includes bonus discussion that you can hear now by supporting the podcast at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. This podcast is part of the Partially Examined Life podcast network and is curated by openculture.com.

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