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"The Legend of the Black Mecca: Intersections of Race, Class, and Politics in Modern Atlanta"
(Special Event)
Africana Studies Program presents: The Black Lives in the New South Speaker Series.
"The Legend of the Black Mecca: Intersections of Race, Class, and Politics in Modern Atlanta," Dr. Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University.
Dr. Hobson's presentation will deal with the ways in which racial politics, economic factors, popular culture, and the history of racial inequality in Atlanta typify the construction of the "Black Mecca" as an archetypal Southern metropolis.
Sponsored by: the Africana Studies Program, Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, Office of the Dean of Students, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Department of Sociology, Gloria Smith Professor of Africana Studies, and the Race and Social Policy Research Center
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