Dr. Neil Vaz and Trent Tomengo discuss how the Portuguese and Spanish claims to lands on either side of the Atlantic Ocean influenced the kinds of Black diasporal cultures found all over the world, including Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Dr. Neil Vaz and Trent Tomengo continue their discussion of how various forms of European slavery and colonialism produced a fluid, global "Black" identity.

In this episode Dr. Neil Vaz and Trent Tomengo discuss how slavery, colonialism, and racist propaganda contributed to the collective psychology of Black people.

Dr. Neil Vaz and Trent Tomengo discuss the complexities of "race" as a concept rooted in Europen colonialism and cultual hegemony.

In this conversation about the functionality of the concept of "race", Dr. Neil Vaz discusses mercantilism, the initial Western European attraction to Africa, and the rise of the Translatlantic Slave Trade.