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Sharing the South
News from the Center for the Study of the American South

"If culture were oil, the South would be Saudi Arabia."
--
Tim Tyson
Spring 2010
In This Issue
Spring 2010
Southern Oral History Program
Southern Cultures
Spring Events
and Lectures


For Spring 2010 CSAS is bringing many wonderful events and lectures to the UNC Campus.

Jeff Whetstones art imageThe artist reception for Jeff Whetstone   is scheduled for April 8 from 5 to 7 pm here at the Love House and Hutchins Forum.  Come by for art, light refreshments and a talk from the artist.


Trudier Harris imageOn April 13th the Hutchins Lecture Series welcomes Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor Emerita.  Her lecture is entitled "Imagining His Body Violated: James Baldwin's Sexual Construction of the South" and will be held at the UNC Alumni Center at 4 pm in the Royall Room. This event is free and open to the public.


Music on the Porch, our popular music performance series, is back on April 19! Join us in April for Catherine Edgerton of Midtown Dickens, Pierce Freelon of The Beast, and Shirle' Koslowski from Free Electric State for an evening of music and conversation.

Congressman John SprattOn April 19th the 5th Annual Charleston Area Alumni Lecture in Southern Affairs features Congressman John Spratt (D-SC).  Congressman Spratt has represented the 5th District of South Carolina in the House of Representatives since 1982.

For the full listing of our events, please our website.
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Greetings!

Welcome to the premier issue of Sharing the South, the new e-newsletter from the Center for the Study of the American South.  We hope that you will enjoy hearing about what we are doing, who is doing it and why we think it is important.  Let us know what you like, what you don't and what you would like to see in the future.
Message from the Director

After years of dead-tree newsletters, the Center for the Study of the American South is going digital!  We will be getting out this e-version of the newsletter more often and hope our friends and readers will find it useful.  Lisa Beavers, our new communications and program coordinator, is responsible for this new step.  We're delighted to welcome Lisa to the Center and thank her for moving us to the twenty-first century.

We're also welcoming Dr. Sally Greene as our new  associate director. Sally not only has a doctorate in English literature but she is also a lawyer and civic leader who serves on the Chapel Hill Town Council. Sally will be taking charge of our development operations and has already brought a great list of new ideas to broaden the reach of the Center.  Sally and Lisa both bring abundant talents to the Center and we are very happy they have joined us.


Southern Oral History Program

Researchers have been hard at work in the archives and in the field, doing background research and conducting interviews on the Women's Movement in the South. These interviews are part of our Long Civil Rights Movement project, a series of interviews examining the endurance of the movement in many forms after the 1960s. We've taken breaks from this work to enjoy a series of small public seminars with noted race issues and civil rights scholars William P. Jones, Bryant Simon, John Dittmer, and Harvard Sitkoff.

 

And we've been busy giving our own seminars and workshops. With more classes using oral history in their research, we've recently taught sessions for students learning about subjects as diverse as Latin American migration and oral history as an art form in presentations at High Point University, Duke University, Jordan-Matthews High School, and on the Carolina campus.

 

This past spring, we honored reproductive rights pioneer Susan Hill with a reception marking the donation of a number of interviews with her conducted by historian Johanna Schoen. These interviews shed new light on the history of women, medicine, and public policy in a era when the fight over legal abortion took center stage in American politics. Susan Hill passed away on January 30, 2010. We are lucky to have known her and had the chance to record her voice and history.

 

Meanwhile, the SOHP continued its work on the Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement Project. Read all about it at the LCRM blog. Our own website, sohp.org, is getting an overhaul, too-take a look to read and listen to new interviews coming into our collection. Speaking of listening, people around the Triangle and beyond got to listen to some of our collection recently, as Digital Coordinator Seth Kotch appeared twice on WUNC's "The State of Things," playing and discussing interview clips. If you like your oral history with a bit of context, listen here, and stay tuned for a special civil rights-themed show in April.

Southern CultureSouthern Cultures Cover Women at Beachs

In the Spring 2010 issue of Southern Cultures .....
  • Southerners Speak Out on the Yankee Invasion of the Coastal South
  • Insiders on Gay Culture & Gender Wars at The Citadel
  • Remembering Kenny Stabler's Old Redneck Riviera
  • Full-Color Photographs of What Was Lost (and then Found) Down at the Border
  • Guts & Gore on Collectible Civil War Cards for Boys
  • Hazel Dickens & "Working Girl Blues"
  • Poetry on Prison Life from Rachel Richardson
  • Stephen J. Whitfield on "Billy Graham & the Rise of the Republican South"
.... and a story from Bland Simpson about the Man Who Could Move Anything.

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