Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
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
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
In her lecture, “Beyond the Slave Narrative,” Sophie White showcases the judicial testimony of enslaved Africans in criminal trials in French colonial Louisiana. Drawing on her current research project, White locates the verbal and non-verbal stories which enslaved individuals, forced … Read more
Where did the Asian sit on the segregated bus? Drawing from her book, 'Partly Colored': Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South, Leslie Bow traces narratives that attempted to reconcile Asian Americans to segregation’s distinction between black and … Read more
In our next Hutchins Lecture, titled "Sustainable, Organic, & Slow: Restoring the Legacy of Black Family Farms," Chef & Farmer Matthew Raiford will discuss returning home after a quarter of a century to help restore his family farm. Gilliard Farms … Read more