Southern Women and the Politics of Rage: A Conversation

Join historians of the modern U. S. South for a discussion of the gendered politics of white supremacy, white and Black women as a political force, and the long roots of our current political landscape.

Robin Morris is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the History department at Agnes Scott College The author of Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Rise of the New Right, she researches gender and women's history as well as histories of U. S. conservatism and Southern history. Morris holds a PhD in History from Yale University, an MA in Southern Studies from University of Mississippi, and a BA from Queens University in Charlotte.

Elizabeth Gillespie McRae is Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University where she researches gender, race, and politics in modern U. S. History. . She holds a BA from Wake Forest University, Masters degrees from Western Carolina University and Marymount University in Virginia, as well as a PhD in History from the University of Georgia. Her book, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy won numerous prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner award from the Organization of American Historians

Adriane Lentz-Smith is Associate Professor of History, African & African-American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. An historian of the Black freedom struggle and the U. S. and the World, she is the author of Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I and the host of the Kenan Institute for Ethics series, "The Ethics of Now." Lentz-Smith holds a BA in History from Harvard-Radcliffe and a PhD in History from Yale University.