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Renowned scholar Theda Perdue from the University of North Carolina
will deliver a lecture entitled “Indians in the Segregated South,
1865-1965” on Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 pm in the Goodroe
Auditorium of Memorial Hall.
The lecture, sponsored by the College’s Fine Arts and Lecture
Series, is free and open to the public.
Perdue, who earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the
University of Georgia, has taught at UNC-Chapel Hill for more than a
decade and currently serves as the Atlanta Distinguished Term
Professor of Southern Culture.
“We are most fortunate to have a scholar of her stature to speak to
our students on a topic that generates a great deal of local
interest,” says Dr. John Hutcheson, Vice President of Academic
Affairs at Dalton State.
“Her talk should be of interest to students, many of whom have been
exploring the topic of multiculturalism this year, and to community
members who are interested in the rich Native American heritage that
surrounds us in northwest Georgia.” |
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An expert on the Native American peoples who populated the
southeastern United States, Perdue is the author of several books,
including Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835,
published in 1995, which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the
best book in southern women’s history and the James Mooney Prize for
the best book on the anthropology of the South.
She also authored The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the
Southeast, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears, and
co-authored “Mixed Blood Indians: Racial Construction in the Early
South with Michael D. Green. She has edited or co-edited six books,
including Sifters: The Lives of Native American Women.
Perdue has held a number of fellowships including those for the John
Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars, the Newberry Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
She has served as President for both the Southern Association for
Women Historians (1985-86) and for the American Society for
Ethnohistory (2001).
For more information about the lecture, please call 706-272-4469.
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