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Author Talk with Award winning Journalist Cynthia Tucker
As the MLK Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of the central library in downtown Washington D.C., we welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker to discuss The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance by herself, and Frye Gaillard. This title is a thorough examination of the influence of The Civil War, and the role the Confederacy has made in modern day America. A limited number of copies will be given away at the event thanks to the DC Public Library Foundation.
More about the Book:
The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance by Cynthia Tucker and Frye Gaillard, examines the role of the South in shaping America’s current political and cultural landscape. Influenced by John Egerton’s pioneering 1974 title, The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America, it reflects on the influence the South and other parts of the country have on each other. In this multiracial perspective, Tucker and Gaillard dive deep into Egerton’s thesis, comparing recent and historical events while also acknowledging the hope entwined in the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement that could ultimately lead to a path of redemption.
About the Authors:
Cynthia Tucker is an award winning columnist and journalist whose work has been celebrated by organizations such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Harvard University, the Alabama Humanities Foundation and the National Association of Black Journalists-who inducted her into its hall of fame. Tucker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, and currently serves as the journalist-in-residence at the University of South Alabama.
Frye Gaillard is a historian, author, and journalist with more than thirty published nonfiction books, including his award winning title, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s which won NPR Best Book in 2018. Gaillard has also won the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction Writing, the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Distinction in Literary Scholarship, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. Currently a writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, he often explores themes of social justice, politics, culture, religion, and Southern music.
About the Moderator
Dr. Zandria F. Robinson is a writer and sociologist working at the intersections of race, gender, popular culture, and the U.S. South. A native Memphian and classically-trained violinist, Robinson earned the Bachelor of Arts in Literature and African American Studies and the Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Memphis and the Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from Northwestern University. Dr. Robinson’s first book, This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) won the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award from the Division of Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her second monograph, Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (University of California Press, 2018), co-authored with long-time collaborator Marcus Anthony Hunter (UCLA), won the 2018 CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title and the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Her next monograph, Soul Power: Race, Place, and the Battle for the Memphis Sound (University of North Carolina Press) examines race, culture, and neighborhood change in South Memphis, former home of the renowned soul music factory Stax Records.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Author Talk |
