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* Posing Beauty
Posing Beauty
Time: 7:00 pm
Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (W. W. Norton, October 2009) is the first photographic history of black beauty. It tells a story overlooked by most of America, and promises to transform the way we think about the history of African American visual culture. Deborah Willis, whose much-celebrated Reflections in Black provided the first definitive history of black photographers, has now collected over two hundred photographs that provide a lasting statement on beauty in the African American community. From posed studio portraits to dandies on parade to elegant debutantes, Willis has constructed a bold narrative of the ever-changing idea of beauty, both female and male, and shows how history books, newspapers, and mainstream magazines deliberately excluded black models until the late 1960s and early 1970s.		 2 3
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* The Reusabe Past
The Reusabe Past
Time: 12:00 pm
The Reusable Past: Abolitionist Memory in the Protest Literature of the Long Civil Rights Movement Zoe Trodd will discuss protest memory in the literature of anti-lynching and desegregation. Across a century of the long civil rights movement (1870s-1970s), protest writers and artists turned abolitionism into a living legacy and adapted its protest aesthetics. Trodd will identify these aesthetics, outline the role of abolitionist memory in the anti-lynching and desegregation phases of the long civil rights movement, and show writers fusing protest memory and the politics of form. This talk is part of the "Tell About the South: Lunchtime Conversations at the Center" Series Fall 2009
* Double Film Feature
Double Film Feature
Time: 7:00 pm
The fall 09 edition of the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, Passion and Remembrance: Dislocation/Relocation/Diaspora (D/R/D), includes films that address historical and contemporary movements of people and the social dynamics that tend to define their daily lives. The Neo African Americans An upward trend in black migration urges an aspiring filmmaker to examine the term “African American.” This compelling documentary rouses important and timely dialogue about identity, culture, race, geography, America and the global movement of African peoples. Director Kobina Aidoo/United States/2009 Ladylike Two black women, one Muslim and the other secular, initially see each other as the antithesis of a proper woman. But when one must save the other from a peeping tom, they learn there is not only common ground between them, but fertile ground for building a friendship. Director Safiya Songhai/US/2008/6 mins For more information, please contact: 919-962-9001 The event will be held on Wednesday, Oct 07 from 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm at UNC's Stone Center		 8
* We Shall Not Be Moved
We Shall Not Be Moved
The exhibit housed at UNC's Wilson library will focus on nine significant themes in African American history (including Enslavement, Labor, Politics, Education) and feature documents, photographs, and artifacts from the Southern Historical Collection, including the Penn School papers. It will run from Oct 8, 2009 - Feb 5, 2010. There will also be concurrent exhibits in Davis Library and the Stone Center Library.		 9 10
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* William McKee Evans
William McKee Evans
Time: 4:00 pm
Dr. William McKee Evans, nationally-known historian and author from Robeson County, N.C., will speak at UNC-Chapel Hill on Wednesday, October 14th as a part of a speaking and book tour related to his new book: The Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. Dr. Evans will speak at 4:00 PM on Wednesday at the Center for the Study of the American South. He will speak, read from his book, dialog with others, and following the dialog, sign copies of his book. His new book on the history of the racial system in the U.S. has been termed the culmination of his long and fruitful career. 		15 16 17
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* Reception for WSNBM
Reception for WSNBM
Time: 5:00 pm
An opening for the exhibit, We Shall Not Be Moved: African Americans in the South, 18th Century to the Present. A reception followed by a short program of dramatic presentations and readings. Exhibit will run through February 5, 2010.		 21 22 23 24
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* Black and Blue Tour
Black and Blue Tour
Time: 2:00 pm
A unique walking tour of historical landmarks on UNC’s campus, led by Dr. Tim McMillan, Professor in African and Afro-American Studies. Dr. McMillan will discuss some of the complex racial history on campus and the memory that these landmarks preserve. The tour will begin at 2:00 p.m. by the Unsung Founders Memorial on McCorkle Place, and will end around 4:00 p.m. in Wilson Library. Rain date, Saturday, November 7.		 29
* Sports Race and Power Conf
Sports Race and Power Conf
The Soccer Project: A Documentary Film in Progress Speakers: Rebekah Ferguson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, Luke Boughen, and Ryan White The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI) is a program of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. The conference is scheduled to be held October 29-30th, 2009. It will be conducted with collaborative support from the Office of the Vice Provost, Social Science Research Institute, Office for Institutional Equity, Office of the Provost, Josiah Trent Foundation, and the Center for French and Francophone Studies. The conference will focus on the history of desegregation of intercollegiate and professional sports, Africa and the World Cup, the interplay between racial inequality in the society at large and in the arena of competitive athletics, and questions of authority and hierarchy in the management, administration and coaching of sports programs.
* E Patrick Johnson
E Patrick Johnson
Time: 7:30 pm
Professor E. Patrick Johnson is chair, director of graduate studies, and professor in the Department of Performance studies and professor of African American studies at Northwestern University. He is also the author of the book Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-- An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press, 2008), which collects stories from the lives of 63 black, gay men who were born, raised and presently live in the South that Johnson interviewed from over 15 different states below the Mason-Dixon Line.Johnson will be performing a selection from his one-man show called "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales," which is based on some of the narratives from his book chronicling several experiences, including a transgendered person living as a man only for church, sexual experimentation, and pressure to conform to societal notions of masculinity.The show will be in Love Auditorium of the Levine Research Science Center (Duke University)		 30
* Sports Race and Power Conf
Sports Race and Power Conf
The Soccer Project: A Documentary Film in Progress Speakers: Rebekah Ferguson, Gwendolyn Oxenham, Luke Boughen, and Ryan White The Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (RNREI) is a program of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. The conference is scheduled to be held October 29-30th, 2009. It will be conducted with collaborative support from the Office of the Vice Provost, Social Science Research Institute, Office for Institutional Equity, Office of the Provost, Josiah Trent Foundation, and the Center for French and Francophone Studies. The conference will focus on the history of desegregation of intercollegiate and professional sports, Africa and the World Cup, the interplay between racial inequality in the society at large and in the arena of competitive athletics, and questions of authority and hierarchy in the management, administration and coaching of sports programs.
* What Does It Mean
What Does It Mean
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Woman? Description: 4th Biennial Symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Duke University Special Collections Library. Conversations on activism, scholarship, and pedagogy in women's education and recognition of the career of Jean Fox O'Barr. More information from cwhc@duke.edu or 660-5967.		 31
* What Does It Mean
What Does It Mean
What Does It Mean to be an Educated Woman? Description: 4th Biennial Symposium of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Duke University Special Collections Library. Conversations on activism, scholarship, and pedagogy in women's education and recognition of the career of Jean Fox O'Barr. More information from cwhc@duke.edu or 660-5967.
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