Where the Line Draws Blood: Faulkner, Ward, and the Policing of Race

Location

Nutt Auditorium

Start Date

22-7-2018 2:30 PM

Description

Like William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward has created a richly textured, fictional-yet-historically-true Mississippi community in her novels. Yet their perspectives on race are radically different. One sees race as an immutable fact in the mind of white people. The other sees race as something created by a centuries-old history of policing African-American movement—a history that begins in slavery, and continues with deadly effect to this day.

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Jul 22nd, 2:30 PM

Where the Line Draws Blood: Faulkner, Ward, and the Policing of Race

Nutt Auditorium

Like William Faulkner, Jesmyn Ward has created a richly textured, fictional-yet-historically-true Mississippi community in her novels. Yet their perspectives on race are radically different. One sees race as an immutable fact in the mind of white people. The other sees race as something created by a centuries-old history of policing African-American movement—a history that begins in slavery, and continues with deadly effect to this day.