Community Brief: Lowery talk

Jan 8, 2009 Community Jump to Comments

Harvard University assistant professor of history Malinda Maynor Lowery will discuss “Indians, Southerners and Amercans: Race Tribe and Nation During Jim Crow” on Jan. 20 at 4 p.m. at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at UNC.

The talk will focus on the North Carolina Lumbee community, examining American Indian identity and federal policy during the Jim Crow era. Lowery, who is Lumbee, has published articles about migration and identity, school desegregation and religious music. In addition, she has produced three documentary films about American-Indian issues.

The talk is one of the James A. Hutchins Lectures presented by the Center for the Study of the American South.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.unc.edu/depts/csas

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