Podcasts by Late Night Office Hours with Ant and Bruce
Ant and Bruce are two Black male community college professors who have chosen to encourage, energize, and empower students by embracing an edutainment style to teaching, learning, and doing sociology. This podcast is literally them recording their 10pm office hours with students from both of our classes present. First, we talk about what is currently happening in the world and tie it back to sociology and then we open the floor to the students for questions and/or comments.About the podcasters:Anthony Blacksher teaches at San Bernardino Valley College and earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University (2019). He is also a nationally recognized spoken word poet (aka Ant Black). Bruce Hoskins teaches at MiraCosta College and earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Southern California (2007) and has written a free introduction to sociology textbook, Sociology in Praxis.
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How Would You Handle This Student? from 2021-05-07T11:00
Topics covered:
1) Respecting the grind of our students!
2) Sociology is working HARD right now because of the social changes that are happening right now
3) What would you do with t...
Teaching after COVID from 2021-05-01T15:00
Topics:
1) We are wiped out and trying to get to the finish line, just like our students!
2) What does teaching look like after COVID? Are you eager to get back to face-to-face?
3) ...
The Verdict of Derrick Chauvin from 2021-05-01T13:00
Topics:
- The Verdict and what it means doing forward
- Which punishment style is more likely to reduce crime
- Discussion of Black films in the Oscars
Is the Police Department Redeemable? from 2021-04-16T14:00
Topics we covered:
1) Is the police department redeemable? A heartfelt discussion following all the violence against Black men recently
2) Coming 2 America - Dr. Blacksher gave it a B+ ...
Black Identity Multiracial Heritage from 2021-03-12T15:00
Although we start off talking about Ant getting his second vaccination, we spend the rest of the time talking about how both Ant and I have strong Black racial identities and racialized experien...
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Marriage and Anti Asian Violence from 2021-03-07T13:00
A student asked how have I been able to stay married for so long (24+ years) and the show took off from there! Ant, Denise and I gave advice for the first 30 minutes ranging from keep you ring ...
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Winter in Texas, A Black Batman, and Dating from 2021-02-20T11:00
Professor Edwina Williams and (soon to be) Dr. Lisa Covington blessed the spot as we talked about the following:
1) The winter storm in Texas and the politics of blame
2) The next Batman...
Late Night with Lisa Covington from 2021-02-13T09:00
We were blessed to have, soon to be doctor, Lisa Covington in the house! Her work on Black female representation in film was an amazing perspective to add to the topics of our show:
1) How ...
Black History Month, The Super Bowl and Why We Teach from 2021-02-06T12:00
The topics covered in this episode:
1) Black History Month is really for White people (4:52)
2) Integration benefits White people, individual Black people, but NOT the Black Community (1...
Insurrection, Game Stop, Amanda Gorman from 2021-01-31T13:00
Topics for this week:
1) The insurrection (5:00)
2) The Game Stop Revolution ( 20:00)
3) Critique on President Joe Biden ( 35:20)
4) Amanda Gorman (47:20)
You Should Act White in a White Neighborhood from 2020-11-21T17:00
Dr. Blacksher and I, start with a news story about an older White woman who told a Black family in Discovery Bay to act White since they live in a White neighborhood. We ended by definitively s...
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Do We Make a Deal with White Supremacy? from 2020-11-15T18:00
A conversation about "election deniers" morphs into talking about what it would take to actually beat white supremacy, but is what would replace it any better? We then shift to talkin...
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Elections, Elections and More Elections from 2020-11-07T13:00
We record on Thursday night, so we did all of this talking without knowing what I know now and that is that Biden/Harris won the 2020 election. I, Dr. Bruce Hoskins, am not "happy", b...
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The Election and Walter Wallace from 2020-11-04T19:00
Topics covered:
(Start) Dr. Blacksher reflects on his "camping" trip that was actually him staying at an Air BNB
(4:50) How we are feeling about the upcoming elections
(22:...
What Graduate School Really Is from 2020-10-19T04:00
Topics Addressed:
1) Applying to graduate school and our Ph.D. experiences. We appreciate Shawntae Mitchum and Denise Nealon contributing to this topic
2) How to know that community col...
The AKA versus the Fly: VP Debate from 2020-10-12T04:00
Ant and I start off with an unexpected discussion about how we use our titles of "Doctor" at strategic moments. We then spin off into a conversation about the fly that landed on the V...
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The Shit Show: President's Debate from 2020-10-05T04:00
We talked about the debate even though I (Dr. Bruce Hoskins) did not watch it because I knew it was going to be bad. I told Dr. Anthony Blacksher that I would rather watch the 0-3 Denver Bronco...
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COVID 19 and Anomie in the Educational System from 2020-09-23T04:00
This session Ant and I check-in with fellow community college educators Joe Limer, Ernest Guillen, and Denise Nealon and how we have transitioned to teaching online. Sociologically, we talked a...
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Princeston WAS Built on Institutional Racism from 2020-09-16T04:00
Dr. Hoskins goes off on a math professor that states that Princeton was not built on institutional racism. Dr. Blacksher wonders why conservatives are tripping about critical race theory. Dr. ...
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Teaching Sociological Theory from 2020-09-09T04:00
On this night, Denise Nealon, MiraCosta professor and alum, is in the house contributing to a conversation regarding how we all teach sociological theory (15:18 Theory, 19:56 Denise Nealon)
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Black Lives Matter in the WNBA and the NBA from 2020-09-05T20:00
In this episode, Ant and Bruce talk about, How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi and how basketball players in the NBA and WNBA are addressing Black Lives Matter issues.
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Black Lives Matter in the WNBA and the NBA from 2020-09-05T20:00
In this episode, Ant and Bruce talk about, How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi and how basketball players in the NBA and WNBA are addressing Black Lives Matter issues.
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Black Lives Matter in the WNBA and the NBA from 2020-09-05T20:00
In this episode, Ant and Bruce talk about, How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi and how basketball players in the NBA and WNBA are addressing Black Lives Matter issues.
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