{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Black Studies Podcast","title":"Allison A. Waite - Artist and Filmmaker","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2424,"description":"This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Allison A. Waite, a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked on a number of films and has produced, written, and directed a number of pieces including The Dope Years, a documentary on the life and death of Latasha Harlins. In this conversation, we discuss the political significance of art as a facilitator of empathy, the importance of authenticity and voice in Black art making, and the responsibilities of creatives and writers in relation to community. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GK0JkHDgcwnQZigXg76yVAfnXOjR7L0IJw8OjXOWQ4o/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYTll/NTVmNTRkMWJiMDIx/NWY5Mjg5ZWEwMzhl/Yjg5My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}