Summary: Support the show and get double the episodes by subscribing to bonus episodes for $5/month at <a href="http://patreon.com/champagnesharks">http://patreon.com/champagnesharks</a>. Also, remember to review and rate the podcast in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2">Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/champagne-sharks/id1242690393?mt=2</a>.<br> <br> Today D. Mills (<a href="https://twitter.com/mdmills79">https://twitter.com/mdmills79</a>) and I talk with Dr. Tommy Curry (<a href="https://twitter.com/drtjc">https://twitter.com/drtjc</a>) on the need for black male studies in academia and the media. Dr. Curry has also been in the news recently for a controversy he's been embroiled in thanks to a witch hunt started by conservative white supremacist Rod Dreher. We also go into whether such a thing as Black Patriarchy exists in the black community or if it's a myth,<br> <br> Discussion Materials:<br> <br> Dr. Curry's book The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood <a href="http://amzn.to/2wj8YwS">http://amzn.to/2wj8YwS</a><br> <br> Dr. Curry's Academia.edu page where you can find his academic papers: <a href="http://tamu.academia.edu/TommyCurry">http://tamu.academia.edu/TommyCurry</a><br> <br> The Chronicle article about the Curry/Dreher/TAMU controvery: <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/who-s-left-to-defend-tommy/240757?key=f15y8715k1n0EpJg1p9khe9nkj7TkzwTZX8waDzm-XB91giqSV5o9bjJHYi2An7uekdiM0pUNEhUQllnaGszX0dZV3lqMGNsbVlvMzZyaHpPakJvMFNDWW1qbw">http://www.chronicle.com/article/who-s-left-to-defend-tommy/240757?key=f15y8715k1n0EpJg1p9khe9nkj7TkzwTZX8waDzm-XB91giqSV5o9bjJHYi2An7uekdiM0pUNEhUQllnaGszX0dZV3lqMGNsbVlvMzZyaHpPakJvMFNDWW1qbw</a><br> <br> Contested Memories: A Critical Analysis of the Black Feminist Revisionist History Project by Valethia Watkins, Ph.D., J.D. <a href="http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol9no4/JuneJuly-17-Watkins.pdf">http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol9no4/JuneJuly-17-Watkins.pdf</a>
