REGISTRATION REQUIRED
January 16 - April 24, 2007
Tuesdays 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
A course offered by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Open to Duke, UNC, NCCU students, and the general public. Registraion is required.
Location: Hayti Heritage Center
(Bus Transportation Available)
Led by North Carolina’s own TIM TYSON (Blood Done Sign My Name), senior scholar atthe 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.
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.
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.
How to Register
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 10583 (required)
Cost: $150
Register through Duke Continuing Studies.
Phone: 919-684-6259
Web: www.learnmore.duke.edu
E-mail: learnmore@duke.edu
For more information contact the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke Univeristy or call 919-660-3663.
