Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi

As part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation […]

Book Discussion: Coming of Age in Mississippi

As part of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 2019-20 Speaker Series Rethinking the Public Sphere Part I: Race and the Promise of Participation and in preparation […]

Anne Moody and Voting Rights in the Era of Black Power: After Coming of Age in Mississippi – Leigh Ann Wheeler

Anne Moody is best known for her civil rights activism and her acclaimed memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). Until now, no one has known what happened in Moody’s […]

‘A Coming Out Of Ourselves’: Knowing Our Place In Racial Injustice – Chris Lebron

Racial injustice has remained a stubborn feature of American society. One reason for its persistence is that everyday Americans fail to understand the problem of racial injustice as a lived […]

Museums and Slavery: Engaging the Past and the Present in the Public Sphere – Ana-Lucia Araujo

How have museums engaged the debates about human atrocities? This lecture explores the development of permanent exhibitions and museums dedicated in part or entirely to address the problem of slavery […]