Mark Anthony Neal
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies
Mark Anthony Neal is Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit).
He also co-directs the Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity (DCORE).
He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013). The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal’s New Black Man was published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Neal is co-editor of That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition. Additionally Neal host of the video webcast Left of Black, which is produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke. You can follow him on Twitter at @NewBlackMan.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
- Professor of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007
- Chair in the Department of African & African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
- Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016
Contact Information
- Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
- Science Building, 243F, Durham, NC 27708
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man9@duke.edu
(919) 684-3987
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Instagram: BookerBBBrown
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Left of Black
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NewBlackMan (in Exile)
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Twitter: @NewBlackMan
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., State University of New York - Buffalo 1996
- M.A., State University of New York, Fredonia 1993
- B.A., State University of New York, Fredonia 1987
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Duke Appointment History
- Director of the Institute for Critical United States Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2006 - 2008
- Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2004 - 2007
- Recognition
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Research
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External Relationships
- NYU Press
- Rap Sessions
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Neal, M. A. New black man: Tenth anniversary edition, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315761916.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203950623.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. Soul babies: Black popular culture and the post-soul aesthetic, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203950623.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. What the music said black popular music and black public culture, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203700617.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. Looking for Leroy: Illegible black masculinities, 2013.
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Forman, ed Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal. That's the Joint: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2nd Edition). Routledge, 2011.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. New Black Man. Routledge, 2005.
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Neal, Mark Anthony, and Murray Forman. That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Routledge, 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation. Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2003.
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Academic Articles
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Johnson, J. M., and M. A. Neal. “Introduction: Wild seed in the machine.” Black Scholar 47, no. 3 (July 3, 2017): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2017.1329608.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “N*ggas in Paris: hip-hop in exile.” Social Identities 22, no. 2 (March 3, 2016): 150–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2015.1121571.Full Text
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Spence, L. K., and M. A. Neal. “Guest Editors’ Note.” Souls 16 (January 1, 2014): 143–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2014.970460.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Nigga: The 21st-century theoretical superhero.” Cultural Anthropology 28, no. 3 (August 1, 2013): 556–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuan.12025.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “"I Am Not Just From Here:" The Roots of Hip Hop's Cosmopolitanism: A Reflection on Isoke's "Women, Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance in Dubai".” Souls 15, no. 4 (January 1, 2013): 338–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2013.884450.Full Text
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Neal, M., and David Ikard. “Transforming Black Men in Feminism.” Edited by T Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers. Palimpsest 1 (2012).
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Pop Music and the Spatialization of Race in the 1990s.” History Now 32 (2012).
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Finding Tea Cake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood.” Edited by T Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers. Palimpsest 1 (2012): 256–63.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce (for Clyde Woods).” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 2012.
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Neal, M. A. “"A man without a country": The boundaries of legibility, social capital, and cosmopolitan masculinity.” Criticism 52, no. 3–4 (January 1, 2010): 399–411. https://doi.org/10.1353/crt.2010.0045.Full Text
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Andrady, Anthony L., and Mike A. Neal. “Applications and societal benefits of plastics.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 364, no. 1526 (July 2009): 1977–84. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0304.Full Text
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Bodies in Pain: The Redemptive Soul of Linda Jones and Keyshia Cole.” Seeingblack, 2009.
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Ashe, Bertram D., Crystal Anderson, Mark Anthony Neal, Evie Shockley, and Alexander Weheliye. “These - Are - The "Breaks": A Roundtable Discussion on Teaching the Post-Soul Aesthetic.” African American Review 41, no. 4 (December 1, 2007): 787–787. https://doi.org/10.2307/25426990.Full Text
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “I Want to Take You Higher: Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church.” Seeingblack, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson.” Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006).” Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Race-ing Katrina.” Transforming Anthropology 14 (April 2006).
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism by Patricia Hill-Collins.” Ms. Magazine, 2006.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor.” Popular Music 24 (October 2005).
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Neal, M. A. “Up from hustling: Power, plantations, and the hip–hop mogul.” International Journal of Phytoremediation 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 157–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300408428405.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Tupac’s book shelf: “all eyez on me: Tupac shakur and the search for a modern folk hero,” W.E.B. Du bois institute for afro-american research, harvard university, april 17, 2003.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 15, no. 2 (January 1, 2003): 208–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2003.00007.x.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “If You Don’t Own the Masters….” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5, no. 1 (Spring) (2003).
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Crisis In Real Time (Digitized Remastered and MP3ed).” Journal of Popular Music Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2002): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/15242220290055001.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Crisis in real time (digitized, remastered, and MP3ed).” Journal of Popular Music Studies 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2002.tb00033.x.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Keeping It Real: The Hip-Hop Generation on Campus.” Commonquest Magazine 3, no. 3 (Winter) (1998).
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Neal, M. A. “Trouble Man: The Art and Politics of Marvin Gaye.” Western Journal of Black Studies 22, no. 4 (Winter) (1998).
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Neal, M. A. “It Be's That Way Sometimes 'Cause I Can't Control the Rhyme: Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia.” Black Renaissance Noire 1, no. 3 (Spring/Summer) (1998).
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Neal, M. A. “Sold out on soul: The corporate annexation of black popular music.” Popular Music and Society 21, no. 3 (December 1, 1997): 117–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007769708591682.Full Text
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Race Music: Black Cultures from Be-Bop to Hip-Hop (University of California) by Guthrie P. Ramsey.” Echo: A Music Centered Journal 6 (n.d.).
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Niggas in Paris: Hip-Hop in Exile (Accepted).” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, n.d.
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Book Sections
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Neal, M. A. “The post-civil rights period: The politics of musical creativity.” In Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation, 368–80, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315472096.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Now I Ain't Saying He's a 'Crate Digger': Kanye West and the Soul Archive.” In The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, edited by Julius Bailey. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Neal, M. A. “Now i ain’t saying he’s a Crate Digger: Kanye west, “community theaters” and the soul archive.” In The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, 3–12, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137395825.Full Text
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Neal, M. A. “Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and clickety-clacks of diaspora.” In Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem, 415–19, 2013.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Thinking While Black.” In Making the University Matter, edited by Barbie Zelizer. Routledge, 2011.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “What Would Shirley Chisholm Say.” In Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign, edited by Beverley Guy-Sheftall and Johnetta Betsch Cole. State University of New York Press, 2010.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Digging in the Crates.” In The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker. Duke University Press, 2010.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “"Bringing Up Daddy: A Black Feminist Fatherhood".” In African-Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory Into Everyday Practice, edited by Aaronette M. White. State University of New York Press, 2010.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Hip Hop Culture.” In Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, 2010.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “The Chitlin Circuit.” In Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Culture, edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill. Smithsonian Books, 2010.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Memory Lane: On Jazz, Hip-Hop and Fathers.” In Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’ Illmatic, edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai. Basic Civitas, 2009.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Music: Bodies in Pain.” In Best African American Essays, 2009, edited by Gerald Early and Debra Dickerson. Bantam Book, 2009.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Sly Stone and the Sanctified Church.” In The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture, edited by Tony Bolden. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Neal, M., Joan Morgan, and Mark Anthony Neal. “A Brand New Feminism: A Conversation.” In Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, edited by Jeff CHang. Basic Press, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor.” In Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, edited by Eric Weisbard. Duke University Press, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “(Forward) "come and take a walk with me/a closer walk with thee/see what only I can see": A Few Words on Hip-Hop Feminism.” In Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology, edited by Gwendolyn Pough, Rachel Raimist, Elaine Richardson, and Aisha Durham. Parker Publishing, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Bringing Up Daddy: A Progressive Black Masculine Fatherhood.” In Progressive Black Masculinities?, edited by Athena D. Mutua. Routledge, 2006.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Post-Soul Resistance: Black Popular Music in the Post-Soul Era.” In African-American Music: A History, edited by Portia Maultsby and Mellonee V. Burnim, 704–704. Routledge, 2005.
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Neal, M. A. “Soul for Sale: the Marketing of Black Musical Expression.” In R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music, edited by Norman Kelley. Akashic Books, 2005.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “The Tortured Soul of Marvin Gaye and R. Kelly.” In Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004, edited by Mickey Hart. Da Capo Press, 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Aretha Franklin.” In African American National Biography, edited by Jr Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Higginbotham. Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Ray Charles.” In African American National Biography, edited by Jr Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Higginbotham. Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “A Way Out of No Way: Jazz, Hip Hop and Black Social Improvisation.” In The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, edited by Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin. Wesleyan, 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “The Birth of New Blackness: The Family Stand’s Moon in Scorpio.” In Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N’ Roll, edited by Kandia Crazy Horse. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
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Neal, M. A. “Just Another Nigga: Reflections on Black Masculinity and Middle Class Identity.” In Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men on Law, Justice and Life, edited by J. Asim. Harper Collins, 2001.
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Neal, M. A. “Another Man is Beating My Time: Gender and Sexuality in Black Popular Music.” In American Popular Music: New Approaches to the 20th Century, edited by R. Rubin and J. Melnick. University of Massachussetts Press, 2001.
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Neal, M. A. “It Be's That Way's Sometimes 'Cause I Can't Control the Rhyme: Notes from the Post-Soul Intelligentsia.” In Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature, edited by K. Powell. John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
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Other Articles
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “What’s the Real Reason for the Sudden Attacks on Hip-Hop?” Vibe Magazine (On Line), 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Who Gets to Use the "N" Word.” Salon, 2007.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Bloodbeats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions (Redbone Press) by Ernest Hardy.” Seeingblack.Com, July 2006.
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Perry, Imani. “Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop.” Aol Black Voices, February 2005.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere (Wesleyan) by Gwendolyn Pough.” Africana.Com. AOL Time Warner, August 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip-Hop Culture (Soft Skull Press) by Yvonne Bynoe.” Popmatters: The Magazine of Global Culture, August 2004.
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Neal, Mark Anthony. “"Strange Bedfellows: Why is Michael Jackson allying himself with the Nation of Islam?".” The New Republic, January 2004.
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Digital Publications
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Neal, M. A. “Left of Black weekly webcast.” John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies & The Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship, n.d.Link to Item
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Neal, M. A. “NewBlackMan (in Exile) blog,” n.d.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AAAS 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2021
- AAAS 331: Black Popular Culture 2021
- AAAS 496: Distinction Program Sequence 2021
- MUSIC 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2021
- VMS 230: Black Popular Culture 2021
- AAAS 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2020
- AAAS 190FS: Focus Program Seminars: Special Topics 2020
- AAAS 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2020
- AAAS 499S: Senior Seminar 2020
- CULANTH 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2020
- ENGLISH 381: The History of Hip-Hop 2020
- MUSIC 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2020
- MUSIC 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2020
- VMS 337: The History of Hip-Hop 2020
- AAAS 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2019
- AAAS 331: Black Popular Culture 2019
- AAAS 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- AAAS 735: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- AAAS 892: Independent Study 2019
- CULANTH 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- ENGLISH 381: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- ENGLISH 735: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- MUSIC 146: Motown and American Soul Music 2019
- MUSIC 335: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- MUSIC 735: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- VMS 230: Black Popular Culture 2019
- VMS 337: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- VMS 735: The History of Hip-Hop 2019
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- What If the Greensboro Four Had Twitter?: Social Justice in the Era of Social Media. November 29, 2012 2012
- Perspectives on the Media of Tyler Perry. November 28, 2012 2012
- Niggas in Paris: Hip-Hop in Exile. November 16, 2012 2012
- Looking for Leroy: (Il)Legible Black Masculinities. November 9, 2012 2012
- Naming Evil in the World: Black Music from the Blues to Hip-Hop. October 18, 2012 2012
- Aretha at Her Peak: Amazing Grace. September 29, 2012 2012
- ThugLife 2.0: The Future of Black Masculinity and the Tupac Hologram. September 28, 2012 2012
- Jay Z’s Other Closet. September 21, 2012 2012
- Looking for Denzel; Finding Barack: Thoughts on the President as Race Man. September 6, 2012 2012
- "What's a New Black Man to Do?: Re-Thinking Black Masculinity in the Obama Era". 25th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE). June 2, 2012 2012
- Naming Evil in the World: Hip-Hop’s Blues Footprints. Keynote: Blues & Spirit—A Symposium on Race. May 19, 2012 2012
- Race, Technologies and Black Popular Cultures. May 10, 2012 2012
- Niggers in Paris: Remixing the Afropolitan Experience. 2nd Annual Hip-hop Literacies Conference. May 9, 2012 2012
- Sampling Michael: Rhythm, Masculinity & Intellectual Property in the ‘Body’ of Michael Jackson. March 2, 2012 2012
- New Black Man: Re-Thinking Black Masculinity. Seventh Annual Black Male Symposium. February 16, 2012 2012
- When You See Me, See You: Hip-Hop, Wealth and Social Justice. Getting Real II: Hip Hop Pedagogy, Performance & Culture in the Classroom and Beyond. February 13, 2012 2012
- Book Session: Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music. Social Science History Association. November 19, 2011 2011
- Hiphop Workout Session - Author Meets The Critics. The HipHopAchive. November 17, 2011 2011
- Finding Teacake: An Imagined Black Feminist Manhood. November 9, 2011 2011
- Panel: Rebirth of a Nation: Race and Gender Politics in Media. November 5, 2011 2011
- Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce. The 7th Annual Mary Louise White Symposium Music & Literature: Legacies in Harmony—Symposium in Honor of Mahalia Jackson’s Centennial. November 4, 2011 2011
- Panel: Hot Sex on a Platter: Erotic Revolutionaries and Punanny Politics in Black Popular Culture. October 21, 2011 2011
- History Repeating? Gender vs. Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary. October 6, 2011 2011
- Plenary Panel: Hip-Hop, Gender and Social Consciousness. October 6, 2011 2011
- Panel: From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image in the American Mind. October 1, 2011 2011
- The O’Jays in Historical Context. July 14, 2011 2011
- Panel: FROM PRECIOUS II FOR COLORED GIRLS The Black Image in the American Mind. April 26, 2011 2011
- The Apollo Legacy: Hip-Hop. April 25, 2011 2011
- Beyond Pathological Media Representations. April 20, 2011 2011
- “A Man Without a Country”: The Boundaries of Legibility, Social Capital, and Cosmopolitan Masculinity”. March 23, 2011 2011
- Panel: Author Meets Critics--Pimps Up, Hoes Down: Hip-Hop's Hold on Young Women by Tracey Sharpley Whiting. March 22, 2011 2011
- Sampling Michael: Rhythm, Masculinity and Intellectual Property in the ‘Body’ of Michael Jackson”. March 12, 2011 2011
- From Precious II For Colored Girls: The Black Image in the American Mind. March 2, 2011 2011
- Remixing the 'New Black Man'. February 21, 2011 2011
- Panel: FROM PRECIOUS II FOR COLORED GIRLS The Black Image in the American Mind. February 19, 2011 2011
- Remixing Martin Luther King, Jr.. January 27, 2011 2011
- Sampling Michael: The Chitlin’ Circuit, Intellectual Property and the Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. September 24, 2010 2010
- How You Gonna Be the ‘King of New York’?: Jay Z’s Hip-Hop Cosmopolitanism. April 8, 2010 2010
- Coming Apart at the Seams: Black Masculinity and the Performance of Obama-Era Respectability: Keynote Address. March 27, 2010 2010
- “A Man Without a Country: The Boundaries of Legibility Social Capital and Cosmopolitan Masculinity". Conference on College Composition and Communication. March 18, 2010 2010
- A History of Hip-Hop Before Hip-Hop:Keynote Address--Is Hip-Hop History? Conference. February 20, 2010 2010
- In A Circle of Friends: Malcolm X and the Social Network of Possibility. February 18, 2010 2010
- Shifting Publics: Redefining Black Public Intellectuals. Making the University Matter. December 5, 2009 2009
- A (Nearly) Flawless Masculinity Barack Obama. The Fifth African-American Literature Symposium. November 12, 2009 2009
- Hip-Hop in the Age of Obama. 19th Association of Black Cultural Centers Conference. November 6, 2009 2009
- A (Nearly) Flawless Masculinity: Barack Obama. November 5, 2009 2009
- Looking for Leroy: Rethinking the Scholarship on Black Men and Boys. Scholars’ Network on Masculinity and the Well-Being of African-American Men. October 23, 2009 2009
- Remember the Time: Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and Cosmopolitan Blackness. Launch of the School of Social Transformation. October 7, 2009 2009
- Conjuring Michael. The Michael Jackson Era in American Culture. Association for the Study of African-American Life and History. October 1, 2009 2009
- ‘A Man Without a Country’: The Boundaries of Legibility and Cosmopolitan Masculinity in The Wire. September 25, 2009 2009
- Getting Real: The Future of Hip-Hop Studies. The Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change. September 14, 2009 2009
- “Black Schools Kill Smart Niggers”: the Romance for Black Institutions in the Post-Soul Era. Histories and Humanities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Embracing the Legacy of John Hope Franklin. May 1, 2009 2009
- Haunting the (Political) Waters: A Meditation on Movement, Citizenship and Political Will in the Post-Katrina Era. The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture. February 11, 2009 2009
- Barack Obama and the Era of the New Black Man. Black History Month Convocation. February 6, 2009 2009
- Reimagining Black Feminist Interventions in Popular Culture. Women’s Studies Program. January 14, 2009 2009
- Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood: Reality TV and the “Disciplining” of the Black Family. Real Worlds: Global Perspectives on the Politics of Reality Television. December 5, 2008 2008
- Teach the Bourgeois and Rock the Boulevard: Hip-Hop and the Academy. Born in the Bronx: The Legacy and Evolution of Hip Hop. November 1, 2008 2008
- Obama, Lil Wheezy, the Katrina-Politans and Other Markers of Modern Blackness (The Pierce Butler Visiting Professorship in English). October 14, 2008 2008
- R. Kelly’s Closet: Shame, Desire and the Confessions of a (Post-modern) Soul Man. October 7, 2008 2008
- My Passport Says Shawn: Towards a Hip-Hop Cosmopolitanism. September 23, 2008 2008
- Engaging the Popular in the Classroom, Keynote Address. Rochester City School District Leadership Conference. August 7, 2008 2008
- Literate Bodies: The Pedagogies of Thugs, Homothugs and Other Illegible Black Male Bodies. April 14, 2008 2008
- Cultural Criticism 2.0: How Do You Filter the Infinite? In Conversation with Oliver Wang. The Transcultural Humanities Lecture Series. April 7, 2008 2008
- Fragments of a Feedback Loop: Blackness in Conversation. Theorizing Blackness Conference. April 4, 2008 2008
- Confessions of a Hip-Hop Feminist. March 13, 2008 2008
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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Service to the Profession
- Curator : Black Thought 2.0: New Media and the Future of Black Studies. December 1, 2012 2012
- African American Review. December 1, 2011 2011
- Book Manuscript Reviewer, Duke University Press. December 1, 2011 2011
- Book Manuscript Reviewer, Temple University Press. December 1, 2011 2011
- Book Manuscript Reviewer, University of Missisippi Press. December 1, 2011 2011
- Book Manuscript Reviewer, University of Minnesota Press. 2011 2011
- The HipHop Review. 2011 2011
- African-American Review. November 2008 2008
- American Quarterly. May 2008 2008
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