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"Getting Back to Abnormal" Film Screening and Q&A with Producer/Director Paul Stekler

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Producer/Director Paul Stekler

New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina. Four years later, she needs to get black votes to be re-elected. But will her record of blunt racial talk doom her chances? "Getting Back to Abnormal" follows the unlikely odd couple of Head and her irrepressible black political advisor Barbara Lacen-Keller as they try to navigate New Orleans' treacherous political scene. With its cast of only-in-New-Orleans characters, "Getting Back to Abnormal" is a provocative and amusing look at race in America, set against the backdrop of New Orleans' rich culture. Event is co-sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, the UNC Southern Oral History Program, and the Southern Documentary Fund.

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