This semester, the College’s African American Studies program presents “What I’m Thinking About,” a series of informal talks with faculty members discussing their current research.
Mari Crabtree
On March 11, 2015, Mari Crabtree, professor of African American history, will give a talk titled “My Soul is a Witness: Theorizing Racial Violence with the Blues.”
The talk takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Education Center, Suite 207, Room D.
Crabtree’s book manuscript, “The Devil is Watching You: Lynching and Southern Memory, 1940–1970,” unearths African American cultural responses to lynching in its aftermath, using the blues sensibility as a metaphor for understanding how black southerners remember (and forget) racial violence.
