Home Front Battles: World War II Mobilization and Race in Deep South
On September 18th at 3pm, Charles Bolton will be presenting his new book Home Front Battles: World War II Mobilization and Race in the Deep South.
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Human Rights Paradox in U.S. History
Writer and PhD candidate Joseph A. Ross works with his faculty mentor, Dr. Mark E. Elliott, in the UNCG Department of History. His poster, “Remembering Nuremberg: The Paradox of Human Rights in American History,” took 1st place in Humanities at the 2016 Graduate Research and Creativity Expo. From 1945 to 1946,… Continue reading…
Video: On race and power
“‘Race’ is a function of power. Power is created through performances. Every moment is a choice. We can choose to act deliberately, intentionally, or not. “So I ask you. What is your performance? What is our performance? How can we become more powerful?” Ranging from Afrocentrism to linguistics and play,… Continue reading…
Revisiting the great war
Image: UNCG graduate student Jason Baum handcrafted 1,634 poppies to serve as the centerpiece of his museum studies capstone project, “Battlefield to Ball Field.” The poppies represent the individuals from Greensboro who served in WWI. Repost from UNCG NOW On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I, an… Continue reading…
Who Tells My Story?
excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine Seventy-five years ago, a 6-year-old African-American boy named Clay McCauley Jr. asked a simple question about the books he read: “Why don’t any of the people look like me?” The woman to whom he posed this question was Stella Gentry Sharpe, a neighbor and… Continue reading…