Melungeon Voices S4 E7 – Dr. José Pimienta-Bey
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- UPDATED: 8.10.2025
- status: to be worked, high-priority
- American History, Melungeons, Racism, Black History, History, Populations, Race+Ethnicity, Culture
date:
10.17.2023
length:
40 min
podcast:
presenter:
producer:
Lis Malone (Lis Malone LLC)
host:
Heather Andolina (MHA President)
guest:
Dr. Jose Pimienta-Bey
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description:
Dr. José Pimienta-Bey is a tenured Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and General Studies at Berea College in Kentucky for the past fifteen years. Pimienta-Bey's primary research interests include Moorish History, “Black”/African Psychology, Comparative Religious Studies, and African American Social and Political Thought.
He is the author of numerous publications, including Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History and Identity in the African American Experience (2002) and “Laboring Within the Mind Fields of Global White Supremacy” which appears in The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (2019) edited by Raymond A. Winbush and Denise L. Wright.
In this season's final episode, Heather and Dr. Pimienta-Bey explore the legal and cultural relevance of Melungeons and Moor identities within U. S. History.
He is the author of numerous publications, including Othello’s Children in the “New World”: Moorish History and Identity in the African American Experience (2002) and “Laboring Within the Mind Fields of Global White Supremacy” which appears in The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (2019) edited by Raymond A. Winbush and Denise L. Wright.
In this season's final episode, Heather and Dr. Pimienta-Bey explore the legal and cultural relevance of Melungeons and Moor identities within U. S. History.
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