# black studies (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover black studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [STUDY GUIDE: African American History](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/study-guide-african-american-history) _2026-08-07 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Recommended Reading for Absolute Beginners and Beyond ## [Sounding Out! Unplugged: “Power in Listening” (August 2026)](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/06/01/sounding-out-unplugged-power-in-listening-august-2026/) _2026-06-01 · Jennifer Lynn Stoever · Sounding Out!_ Hello listeners + readers! We usually take July as a BYE month to celebrate our yearly blog-o-versary, but this year, we are going bigger! Team SO! is pausing for the full summer–June, July, AND August–to catch our breath in advance of the publication of the official Sounding Out! print anthology, Power in Listening (New York \[…\] ## [Marginalia // May 2026](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/marginalia-may-2026) _2026-05-27 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Scenes from my research amid the war on Black Studies ## [This Past Weekend with Theo Von: Brocasting Trump, Part II](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/05/18/this-past-weekend-with-theo-von-brocasting-trump-part-ii/) _2026-05-18 · Andrew J. Salvati · Sounding Out!_ But first. . . A Brief Synopsis of an Introduction to Bro-casting Trump: A Year-long SO! Series by Andrew Salvati — In total, Trump appeared on fourteen podcasts or video streams during his 2024 campaign, which together earned a combined 90.9 million views on YouTube and on other video streaming platforms, not even including audio podcast \[…\] ## [El Llanto Against I.C.E.: Toward a Latinx Sonic Phenomenology of the Dignified Cry](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/05/04/el-llanto-against-i-c-e-toward-a-latinx-sonic-phenomenology-of-the-dignified-cry/) _2026-05-04 · Kristian E. Vasquez · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/xgm8r-acg57 It is July 4, 2025. The air is hot; the sun is beaming on concrete and asphalt. Sweat is accumulating on my cotton Disrupt band t-shirt. My skin is sticky. Inside a suffocating room, the volume penetrating my ears is the racket of voices producing a steady pulsation of disunified sounds. A brown \[…\] ## [The Medium Is the Menace: AI and the Platforming of Hate Speech](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/04/27/27909/) _2026-04-27 · Houman Mehrabian · Sounding Out!_ The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains. Across these accounts, listening no longer secures meaning or relation; it becomes a site of contestation, where sound is mobilized, processed, and weaponized within systems that privilege circulation,… ## [Cuba sent doctors. Washington sent a destroyer.](https://qualityoflight.substack.com/p/cuba-sent-doctors-washington-sent) _2026-04-21 · Jafari Sinclaire Allen · Jafari Sinclaire Allen_ What the US blockade is killing is not only a failing state. It is six decades of a small island acting as if the freedom of others were its own business. ## [The Erasure of Black Studies: A report on the undoing of a field.](https://qualityoflight.substack.com/p/the-erasure-of-black-studies-a-report) _2026-04-21 · Jafari Sinclaire Allen · Jafari Sinclaire Allen_ The Erasure of Black Studies A report on the undoing of a field. ## [Mimicked Voices and Nonhuman Listening: AI Deepfakes, Speech, and Sonic Manipulation in the Digital War on Ukraine](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/04/13/mimicked-voices-and-nonhuman-listening-deepfakes-speech-and-sonic-manipulation-in-the-digital-war-on-ukraine/) _2026-04-13 · Olga Zaitseva-Herz · Sounding Out!_ The essays collected in this series (link to the Introduction) trace how nonhuman listening operates through sound, speech, and platformed media across distinct but interconnected domains. Across these accounts, listening no longer secures meaning or relation; it becomes a site of contestation, where sound is mobilized, processed, and weaponized within systems that privilege circulation,… ## [Hate & Non-Human Listening, an Introduction](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/03/30/hate-non-human-listening-an-introduction/) _2026-03-30 · Kathryn Huether · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/ptkds-a2v12 In January 2026, WIRED reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun using Palantir’s AI tools to process public tip-line submissions. The system does not simply store or relay these reports. It processes English-language submissions, condensing them into what is called a “BLUF”—a “bottom line up front” summary that allows agents… ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/15Emelxfpjp8) _2026-03-30 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Newsletter // February 2026](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/newsletter-february-2026) _2026-02-26 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Renaming and refreshing my Substack, plus summer teaching and research travel ## [Why I'm Probing the Heart of Knowledge](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/why-im-probing-the-heart-of-knowledge) _2026-02-26 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ and why I've changed the name of my Substack ## [Start Here](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/start-here) _2026-02-25 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Mapping The Heart of Knowledge ## [The Absurdity and Authoritarianism of Now: My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade Resonates Queerly, Anew](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/02/23/the-absurdity-and-authoritarianism-of-now-my-chemical-romances-_the-black-parade_-resonates-anew/) _2026-02-23 · Max Lubbers · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/g8byn-fea85 My Chemical Romance fans are speculating about new music after the band wiped their X account clean and wrapped up the Latin America leg of their tour this month. Whether another album is on the way or not, MCR’s magnum opus – The Black Parade – continues to endure two decades later. The \[…\] ## [SO! Reads: Alexis McGee’s From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/02/02/so-reads-alexis-mcgees-from-blues-to-beyonce-a-century-of-black-womens-generational-sonic-rhetorics/) _2026-02-02 · Joe Z. Johnson · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/2ggqc-77f66 From Blues To Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women’s Generational Sonic Rhetorics (SUNY Press, 2024) by Alexis McGee explores Black women’s creative labor and cultural production. The book offers a searing critique of both record industry exploitation and sound studies’ white gaze. By focusing on quotidian engagement with sound, McGee speaks simultaneously to… ## [First Person // January 2026](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/first-person-january-2026) _2026-01-27 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ On dreams, learning from exemplary works, and "doing it for the plot" ## [SO! Reads: Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/01/19/so-reads-justin-ecksteins-sound-tactics-auditory-power-in-political-protests/) _2026-01-19 · jonstoneb9ece95f42 · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/h1xxb-5vh69 Justin Eckstein’s Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests (Penn State University Press) is a book “about the sounds made by those seeking change” (5). It situates these sounds within a broader inquiry into rhetoric as sonic event and sonic action—forms of practice that are collective, embodied, and necessarily relational. It also addresses \[…\] ## [Impaulsive: Bro-casting Trump, Part I](https://soundstudiesblog.com/2026/01/05/bro-casting-trump-part-i-impaulsive/) _2026-01-05 · Andrew J. Salvati · Sounding Out!_ DOI: https://doi.org/10.59350/zpgnq-c0z97 But first. . . An Introduction to Bro-casting Trump: A Year-long SO! Series by Andrew Salvati “The Manosphere Won.” That is how Wired succinctly described the results of the 2024 election the day after Americans went to the polls. Among the several explanations offered for Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Kamala Harris, the \[…\] ## [Marginalia // December 2025](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/marginalia-december-2025) _2025-12-28 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Travel to California, the wisdom of the detour, and musings on research methods ## [Marginalia // November 2025](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/marginalia-november-2025) _2025-11-28 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Harvard Medical School and Legacies of Slavery and Racism project, archival silences, and embodied inquiry ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yHoL5RGscL7I) _2025-11-28 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [First Person // November 2025](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/creative-writing-update-november) _2025-11-02 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ Introducing this segment, my memoir project, brahma muhurta + my inspirations ## [Upcoming Events in MA // October - November 2025](https://kaitlinsm1th.substack.com/p/upcoming-events-in-ma-oct-nov-2025) _2025-10-13 · Kaitlin Smith · The Heart of Knowledge | Kaitlin Smith_ I'm speaking in Boston and Western Massachusetts on 10/22 + 11/7