Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
"Music of Latin@s and their Predecessors in the United States before 1900" What was “Latin music” like in pre-twentieth century America? Was there a “Latin music” or even a Latino identity during this historical period? With the current heated political … Read more
Our first James and Marguerite Hutchins Lecture of the 2016-17 academic year, titled "Southern Hunger and the American Food System," will be presented by award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan. McMillan is author of the bestselling study The American Way of Eating: … Read more
“Manners, Memory, and Murder in America’s Holy City” Sometimes called the “Holy City,” Charleston, South Carolina is one of America’s oldest and most historic cities. It has won numerous awards for its residents’ politeness, and it has been chosen as … Read more
“Free-Market Activists and School Desegregation” Suppose that something long understood as an ending was really a beginning. What if the white South’s massive resistance to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision proved to be not just the … Read more
In our first Hutchins Lecture of the semester, “The Beekeeper: Collecting Oral Histories of Black Southern Queer Women,” E. Patrick Johnson will discuss the methodological challenges he faced while conducting research about women as a man. He'll also perform excerpts … Read more