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Overview
How to Register
More About the Course
Podcasts
Overview
THE SOUTH IN BLACK AND WHITE
Southern History, Culture, and Politics in the 20th Century
A Course for NCCU, DUKE,
UNC Students
& the GENERAL PUBLIC
(Course Listed/Credit Granted by Each University)
January 15–April 22, 2008
Tuesdays 7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Hayti
Heritage Center
804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina
Directions to the Hayti Heritage Center
OFFERED BY THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Led by North Carolina’s own TIM TYSON (Blood
Done Sign My Name), senior scholar at the Center for Documentary
Studies, the course will furnish a wide front porch on Southern
history. Weekly lecture, interviews, live music, poetry, dramatic
performances, film clips, and opportunities for discussion.
FEATURING A DIVERSE GROUP OF GUEST LECTURERS
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
How
to Register
Undergraduate and Graduate Students:
NCCU – PUBLIC HISTORY 3020. Contact: Carlton Wilson, cwilson@nccu.edu
DUKE – DOCST 132/AAAS 131. Contact: Charlie Thompson, cdthomps@duke.edu
UNC – AMST (American Studies) 292. Contact: Joy Kasson, jskasson@email.unc.edu
General Public:
CLASS ID 11455 (required)
Cost: $150
Registration now open
Register through Duke Continuing Studies. Phone: 919-684-6259.
Web: www.learnmore.duke.edu
E-mail: learnmore@duke.edu
If you are a professional interested in taking this class for CEUs, please contact Garry Crites at gjc3@duke.edu or (919) 684-3178.
More
About the Course
Through the lens of documentary traditions in the American South,
this course will engage in a call and response between black and
white cultures in a region where democracy has been envisioned and
embattled with global consequences. The course will cover history
and culture as documented in spirituals, gospel, blues, and rock
& roll; civil rights photography; Southern literature; and historical
and autobiographical writing. Readings will include work by historians
W.E.B. Du Bois, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, and others
and the literary achievements of Richard Wright, Zora Neal Hurston,
and Ernest Gaines along with their white counterparts: William Faulkner,
Eudora Welty, Lillian Smith, and others. Classes will include lectures,
music, poetry, film clips, discussion, and visitors. Open to Duke,
UNC, and NCCU students, and
members of the general public.
INSTRUCTOR
Timothy B. Tyson, author of the much-acclaimed Blood
Done Sign My Name and other award-winning books, is Senior
Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
and Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture
in the Duke Divinity School. Blood
Done Sign My Name, a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and winner of the Christopher Award and the North Caroliniana
Book Award, was the 2005 selection of the Carolina Summer Reading
Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assigned
to all new undergraduate students. Tyson’s previous book Radio
Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
(UNC Press, 1999) won the James Rawley Prize and was co-winner of
the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, both from the Organization of
American Historians. He also co-edited, with David S. Cecelski,
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington
Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (UNC Press, 1998), which
won the 1999 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center
for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Tyson was a John
Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center in
2004–05.
Podcasts
PODCAST ON “THE SOUTH IN BLACK
AND WHITE”
Tim Tyson and Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary
Studies
CDS front porch, October 26, 2006
Listen to the podcast (5:32
minutes)
Tyson and Rankin discuss the origin of the course, “The South
in Black and White.” Topics include: race relations in Durham,
the Duke lacrosse situation, the role of public education, guest
speakers planned for the course, and the Hayti Heritage Center,
where the course will be held.
"THE STATE OF THINGS" RADIO
BROADCAST
Host Frank Stasio, Tim Tyson, Adriane Smith, and gospel singer Mary
D. Williams
WUNC broadcast, January 9, 2007
Listen
to the audio of the broadcast on the Web site for "The State
of Things" (49:24 minutes)
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