Jim Crow Wisdom: A conversation with Jonathan Scott Holloway and Mark Anthony Neal

What do we let ourselves remember of the past? How do our memories and forgettings reflect who we want to be and shape who we can become? In Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory & Identity in Black America since 1940, Yale University historian Jonathan Scott Holloway weaves intimate personal and family memories into his analysis of broad social, cultural, and political phenomena, bringing readers along with him to explore race memory from the beginning of the modern civil rights era to the present. Join us at the Hayti Heritage Center for a discussion of this exciting new book with Professor Holloway and Duke Professor of African & African American Studies Mark Anthony Neal. A reception and book signing will follow the event. Co-sponsored by the Durham County Library. A limited number of copies of Jim Crow Wisdom will be available at The Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street in Durham on a first-come, first-served basis. Simply go to the counter and tell them you are participating in the Forum for Scholars and Publics discussion, and they will give a copy free of charge.