Center for the Study of the New South

01/12/2024

Would love to see all of Niner Nation--faculty, staff, students, alum, community turn out next week! Thanks to all involved in planning this important conversation!

06/19/2023

Thanks to Dr. Mark West for the invitation to contribute a summary of books on Juneteenth to Storied Charlotte--there are some great ones out!!

Writers of historical fiction are first and foremost storytellers, but they are also tour guides who take readers to other places and times. In most historical novels, the settings, both in terms of place and time, play integral roles in the unfolding of the plots. Such is the case with two recently...

04/12/2023

Thank you to Dr. Mark West for sharing Light and Legacies with Storied Charlotte!

My friend and colleague Dr. Janaka Bowman Lewis is the author of Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation, which the University of South Carolina Press just released as part of its Cultures of Resistance Series. Light and Legacies is grounded in Janaka’s deep knowledge of liter...

03/29/2023

WE MOVE at UNC Charlotte, TODAY!!

03/23/2023

Next Wed. 3/29 At UNC Charlotte, Feminism & Activism collaborative events--WGST, CSNS, HGHR, IEE, AFRS, ENGL and more!

03/08/2023

Next Thurs 3/16 at Gantt Center, Charlotte. Registration is free and open to the public!

Celebrate Women's History Month with a roundtable of the city's most esteemed women leaders of color. In this engaging roundtable discussion of loca...

03/07/2023

We are just ONE WEEK away from the official release of our NEWEST book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women, from ! Join us in celebrating its publication on Saturday, March 11th from 1-3 pm at the Diner, underneath the Rabun County Civic Center. We'll have books available for purchase and signing, as well as info on how you can participate in our crowdsourced oral history project. All are welcome!

03/07/2023

Maya Angelou was best known as a poet and the best-selling author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970). Angelou was also a singer, dancer, Grammy-winning composer, director, and actress. She was hailed as an internationally regarded figure for her role as a civil rights leader who fought for social and racial justice.

Angelou resided in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for over thirty years. Dr. Angelou moved to North Carolina in 1981 after accepting a lifetime teaching position at Wake Forest University as the first recipient of the Reynolds Professor of American Studies. During her career as a tenured professor, Angelou taught a variety of subjects, including science, theology, theater, writing, ethics, and philosophy.

In addition to teaching at Wake Forest, Angelou positively impacted her local North Carolina community in other ways. Angelou gave her name and support to the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest School of Medicine. The Center aims to close disparities in the quality of healthcare for minorities, focusing largely on African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and American Indians.

She was the recipient for the North Carolina Award for Literature in 1987.

02/26/2023

Born in Hamlet, NC, John William Coltrane emerged as one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of the 20th century.

After high school Coltrane moved to Philadelphia where he attended music school. He made his professional debut in 1945 and collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis in milestone recordings before forming his own group in 1960. In the years before his death at age forty, he “...achieved the rare feat of establishing avant garde jazz, temporarily, as popular music,” according to critic Martin Williams.

02/26/2023

02/26/2023

Read about our Women's History Month keynote by Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown and register for webinar (or join us in person 3/29 at 2:30 pm in Popp Martin Student Union Theater)!

The Center for the Study of the New South in UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences promotes discourse and dialogue on a rich and diverse constellation of topics and ideas relating to the New South.  Known as the period of regional history from the end of the Civil War to the modern ...

02/01/2023

Kicking off Black history month tomorrow at UNC Charlotte with an important conversation on the legacy of Robert F. Williams, community conversation moderated by Patrice Wilson! Free and open to the public (Connie's book is also available online)