Behind the Veil of Lynching and Jim Crow on the December 12th Left of Black

Behind theVeil of Lynching and Jim Crow on theDecember 12th Left of BlackLeft of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype©by Koritha Mitchell, Professor ofEnglish at The Ohio State University and author of Livingwith Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press).  Neal and Mitchell discusshow black playwrights during the early 20th century used one-actplays to offer response to racial trauma and violence.  Neal and Mitchell also contemplate whyblack artists are often misunderstood in their intent, where their art is oftenlabeled "protest art" when it instead functions as a form of communityexpression.   Lastly, Mitchell analyzes the first generation of blackcross-over stars and distinguishes between Tyler Perry the stage performer andthe filmmaker.   LaterNeal is joined via Skype© by LeslieBrown, Associate Professor of History at Williams College and a researcheron the project Behindthe Veil: Documenting the African-American Experience in the Jim Crow South which has been recently digitized at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.  Brown discusses the ethnographicresearch she did to prepare for the archive and the remaining accessibility gapto materials such as these.  Brown also discusses the recent interest in  the Jim Crow era.  
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Leftof Black airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on Duke's Ustream channel: ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal andfeatured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or#dukelive. 
Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and InterdisciplinaryStudies at Duke University.
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FollowLeft of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlackFollowMark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackManFollowKoritha Mitchell on Twitter: @ProfKori
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