Department of American Studies
BOOK TALK – Dr. Jolene Hubbs
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Jolene Hubbs’s book, Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature, explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and genres across the long twentieth century.
Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change: “Civil Rights without Human Rights”
Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesProfessor Joseph Darda, associate professor of English at Texas Christian University, will present the 2023 Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change, titled “Civil Rights without Human Rights.”
Rose M. Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change: Julian Saporiti
UA Student Center Theater 751 Campus W Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJulian Saporiti is a musician/scholar whose songs address the tragic legacies of the Vietnam War (he’s half Vietnamese) and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. His music appears under the Smithsonian Folkways label. He earned a PhD in American Studies from Brown University. The lecture/performance will especially appeal to anyone with interests in folk music/storytelling, video arts, the American wars in Asia, refugees and immigration, and Asian American identities. https://www.nonoboyproject.com/