The Archways Podcast - The College of Arts and Letters at JCSU

In 2007, Arizona State University and Johnson C. Smith University sent three scholars -- William Brashears, Yvette Hall, and Jemayne King -- to three American Cultural Centers to present on aspects of race in the United States. In this podcast, Yvette Hall of Johnson C. Smith University ("Ethnic Hair Care and Entrepreneurship in America") examines race through the intersection of hair care and corporate culture following a brief question and answer session, in which she is joined by William Brashears of Arizona State University ("Discussing Race in America: Whiteness Studies") and Jemayne King of Johnson C. Smith University ("The Development of American Sneaker Culture") engage with two facets of the topic. This recording was made at Sichuan University on March 30. The two prior lectures took place at Guangdong Baiyun University (March 27) and Guangzhou University (March 28).

In 2007, Arizona State University and Johnson C. Smith University sent three scholars -- William Brashears, Yvette Hall, and Jemayne King -- to three American Cultural Centers to present on aspects of race in the United States. In this podcast, William Brashears of Arizona State University ("Discussing Race in America") and Jemayne King of Johnson C. Smith University ("The Development of American Sneaker Culture") engage with two facets of the topic. This recording was made at Sichuan University on March 30. The two prior lectures took place at Guangdong Baiyun University (March 27) and Guangzhou University (March 28).

This edition of the Archways Podcast features Dr. Cheryl Butler Brayboy's Cato Par Excellence Teaching Award Address, entitled "The Catalytic Moment in Art and Life", to the Johnson C. Smith University Honors Convocation. This celebration, which recognizes students who have made the President's List (Those students who have maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average while taking 15 or more credit hours with no Incomplete course work.). Programing Note: Some of her address is in Spanish. She translates these sections into English.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Reggie Paige about "Odyssey to the East", his documentary of his experience with the 2017 JCSU Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad trip to China.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Ms. Liu Qin ("Luna") her visit to Charlotte.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest sit down to discuss the Electoral College, its function, and its history.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Ms. Zhu Na ("Jennifer") and Ms. Zhuang Jiayi ("Breezen") about their semester at JCSU and their impressions of the United States.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Ms. Sharika Comfort about her research on the literature of the Black Panther Movement, the Movement's historical significance, and its parallels with the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Madison Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest briefly speak with Ms. Haiyan Song (Sonya) and Ms. Hanjing Zeng (Hanna) about their impressions of the US and how our podcast can impact the English language students at Guangdong Baiyun University and throughout China.

Hosts of the Archways Podcast Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Cheryl Butler Brayboy speak with Charlotte, North Carolina's Mayor Jennifer Roberts about our city's place in the United States and the larger world.

Host of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Dr. Terza Lima-Neves, Associate Professor of Political Science at Johnson C. Smith University, and Ramon Garibaldo-Valdez, recent JCSU graduate and soon to be graduate student at Yale University, on the complexities of historical and contemporary immigration and migration within the United States.

Host of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Matthew DeForrest briefly speak with Dr. Cheryl Butler Brayboy, Associate Professor of English in Johnson C. Smith University's Department of Languages and Literature, about her research into John and Lucy Sutton, her slave-owning and enslaved ancestors who made a life together during a time when such a relationship was legally and socially forbidden and how their legacy has been passed down in her family.

Host of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Matthew DeForrest briefly speak with Ms. Zhou Jing (Joanna) about her impressions of the US and how our podcast can impact the English language students at Guangdong Baiyun University and throughout China.

Hosts of the Archways Podcast Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Dr. David Luciano, Dr. Melvin Herring, and Dr. James Freeman of the JCSU Department of Social Work in the College of Professional Studies about the history of Social Work and the role it plays in the United States.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest speak with Dr. Michael Aradas, Assistant Professor of History, and Dr. Tiffany Packer, Assistant Professor of History, about the history and the context(s) of American Slavery.

Hosts of the Archways Podcasts Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest briefly speak with Mr. Liu Yi (Charles) about Guangdong Baiyun University's side of our bi-lateral partnership.

Archways co-hosts Dr. Brian Jones and Dr. Matthew DeForrest discuss the history and role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Mr. Ron Stodghill, journalist, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and author of Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture; Miss Noluthando Dlomo, Miss JCSU; and Mr. Isreal Spencer, Mr. JCSU.

An introduction to the Archways Podcast, recorded at Johnson C. Smith University for the Guangdong Baiyun University Center for American Race and Culture, an American Cultural Center located on the campus of Guangdong Baiyun University and funded by the US Embassy in Beijing. This podcasts introduces the Center, its goals, and the broad outlines of what will come in later episodes.