Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
Please join us for the final Hutchins Lecture of the 2014-15 academic year, as Waldo E. Martin Jr. addresses "Reaping the Whirlwind": The Contested History of the Black Panther Party. This lecture will be held in the Kresge Foundation Room … Read more
Join us in the Pleasants Room at Wilson Library for the first James and Marguerite Hutchins Lecture of 2015-16, as Dr. Sam W. Haynes presents a lecture on "Unbecoming Southern: The Roots of Texas Exceptionalism." Many Texas historians have argued … Read more
“I Got What I Got The Hard Way”: Memphis, Muscle Shoals, and the Racial Politics of Southern Music The music of the South has long been a central metaphor for the region’s tumultuous racial history. Genres like country and soul … Read more
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee … Read more
Golden Arches and White Spaces: Race in Early Fast Food Places By the late twentieth century, fast food restaurants became a common feature of American life. Although this innovation, which brought food production into the factory age, was not a … Read more