Abstract: In this episode, Karin and Elizabeth discuss the last essay in the Nakan Journal: The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage by Elizabeth Amisu. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. “Episode 58 –His Beauteous Race” Podcast, Michael Jackson’s Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 9, no. 1 (2022). Published electronically 21/07/2022. https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/episode-58 The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 58– His Beauteous Race, Discussing 'The Cultural Inheritance of Michael Jackson: reading the Performance of High-Status Blackness in Video and on Stage'By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of  ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. References Elizabeth Amisu, The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Santa Barbara, California, Praeger, 2016). Amazon “BAD (1987)”, The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, issue 1, no 2, 2014, published online 22 July 2014, accessed 9 November 2021. URL: https://michaeljacksonstudies.org/bad-1987-2/. John Brannigan, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, (Basingstoke, Hampshire, and London, Macmillan, 1998). Jim Blashfield, Leave Me Alone, 1989. Colin Chilvers, Smooth Criminal, 1988. Nicholas Cullinan, Margo Jefferson, & Zadie Smith, Exhibit Cat. Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery, 2018). Nicolas Kluger, “The Michael Jackson and Winnie Harlow Effect: Impact on Vitiligo Awareness on the Internet”, Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (2019). John Landis, Black or White, 1991. Harriet J. Manning, Michael Jackson and the Blackface Mask (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series, London, Taylor and Francis, 2016). Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1992). Elena Oliete, “Michael, Are You Ok? You’ve Been Hit by a Smooth Criminal: Racism, Controversy, and Parody in the Video Clips Smooth Criminal and You Rock My World”, Studies in Popular Culture, 29 (2006), p. 57-76. Joseph Vogel,