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The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics
CharlottesvilleVirginiaUnited-statesCharlestonSouth-carolinaLouisianaAlabamaUnited-kingdomWallstreetWilliamsburgMississippiRichmondTo our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. Shes an awardwinning author coauthor and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university. Which for which she won . The she was awarded the Chelsea Eldridge book prize from the Smithsonian A
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