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The “Other” Global Migrants: Refugees and White Collar Workers – Global American South Symposium Panel C from CSAS on Vimeo. This panel focuses on the growing number of refugees who have resettled in the South from Burma/Myanmar and from central Africa. The panel also discusses on white collar immigrants from…

Global American South Symposium Plenary – The Browning and Graying of the South from CSAS on Vimeo. The plenary lecture was given by James H. Johnson Jr., William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Professor Jocelyn Neal is the new Director of the Center for the Study of the American South effective July 1, 2012. Jocelyn Neal is Associate Professor of Music and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies. Her primary areas of research are commercial country music and American popular music. She is the author…

Each Friday morning this past March, WUNC’s Eric Hodge of “Morning Edition” was joined by Seth Kotch from the Southern Oral History Program. Kotch and a team of oral historians recently completed a new series of never-before-heard interviews with activists, leaders, and lay-people about the Civil Rights Movement. They listened to and…

One of SOHP‘s community partners, the Jackson Center’s Fusion Youth Radio, was selected by Youthcast to be featured in their bi-weekly podcast. Fusion Youth Radio (FYR) is the Center’s new, live, radio program on WXYC 89.3 that is rooted in the idea that our youth must work together to take active roles in shaping…

Next Wednesday at noon, the Center for the Study for the American South invites faculty, staff, and graduate students to Tell About the South, the Center’s series of lunchtime presentations of works in progress by faculty and senior graduate students. LaKisha Michelle Simmons’s talk is entitled “’Defending Her Honor’: Black Girlhood…

The Loving Story Symposium panel – History’s Shadow: Slavery and Status from CSAS on Vimeo. History’s Shadow: Slavery and Status Moderator: Anna Krome-Lukens, Ph.D. candidate in history, UNC-Chapel Hill Panelists: Edward Ayers Grace Hale Shannon Eaves

The Loving Story Symposium panel – Law and the Color Line from CSAS on Vimeo. Law and the Color Line Moderator: David Palmer, lecturer in history, UNC-Chapel Hill Panelists: George La Noue Robin Lenhardt Eric Muller  

The Loving Story Symposium panel – Loving and Survival: Exile and Place from CSAS on Vimeo. Loving and Survival: Exile and Place Moderator: Ali Neff, Ph.D. candidate in communication studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Panelists: Tom Rankin William Andrews Juan Logan

Kent Reilly – The Art and Iconography of the Ancient American South (2/16/12) from CSAS on Vimeo. Dr. Reilly’s research interest is in the study of the visual artifacts of ancient civilizations as valuable works of art in themselves, not just as documentary evidence of the past. His chief areas…