If you know us, you know we’re always striving to nurture rigorous scholarship, critical conversations, and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South. These past few months have been as fruitful as ever. In addition to the highlights below, Southern … Read more

8/21/18 UPDATE: We could not be more pleased that, in many ways, our statement became irrelevant as soon as we published it. We are proud of the activists and students who, in the words of Pauli Murray (a black woman who wrote to … Read more

Can’t wait for next fall? You can enjoy some of our favorite recent Music on the Porch moments on our YouTube channel. Here’s a sampling:

Can’t attend in person? Follow along with our Livestream: https://livestream.com/accounts/10268920/AmericanSouth and Tweet us your questions @UNCSouth with the hashtag #SeparateIsUnequal. How much racial progress has been made in America since 1955, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered all 50 states … Read more

Mishio Yamanaka, a PhD candidate in UNC’s Department of History and the 2017-18 McColl Fellow, will show how Creoles of color in New Orleans achieved the partial desegregation of public schools during Reconstruction and resisted resegregation in 1877. In her … Read more