Spring Appalachian Lecture Series: Dr. Wilma Dunaway
Venue: Radford Public Library, Radford
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Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
The Radford Heritage Foundation will host the first of its Spring Appalachian Lecture Series on March 22, 2012. The speaker will be Virginia Tech Professor Wilma A. Dunaway PhD, who will give a talk entitled “Challenging Popular Mythology: Impacts of Enslavement and Emancipation on Black Appalachian Families.”
Wilma A. Dunaway is a Professor in Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs where she teaches and directs graduate students who specialize in globalization studies. Her work is both acclaimed and controversial because she employs the world-systems perspective to challenge long-held popular myths and dominant academic paradigms that stigmatize or ignore minority groups, indigenous peoples, women, and poor societies.
Dunaway has published three award-winning books with Cambridge University Press (2003, 2008) that focus on impacts of slavery on African-American families and on the centrality of women’s income-earning work to the survival of nineteenth century American households.
The talk will take place at the Radford Public Library on Thursday, March 22, at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome. There is no admission charge.
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