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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, a retired educator and high school football standout, and H.D. “De” Kirkpatrick, author and forensic psychologist, will share their story about race, football and civil rights in 1960s Charlotte during ‘The Shared Story of Race in the South.’ This event, scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 21, is this year’s annual UNC Charlotte Levine Lecture. The men’s compelling, […]

Join Our Community Cultural Coffeehouses For a Look at Growing Up As An Immigrant in Charlotte UNC Charlotte and Queens University of Charlotte invite you to explore what it is like to live as a member of the Muslim and the Latino/Dreamer Immigrant communities in Charlotte at two Community Cultural Coffeehouses. Who: Our students from Muslim […]

Hard to believe it was just over a week ago when Heather Ann Thompson gave an amazing talk for the Center about her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Since last Wednesday, her book has been named #1 on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Heartrending Fiction List,” to Newsweek’s […]

Center for Study of the New South Takes Look at 1971 Attica Prison Uprising Former UNC Charlotte associate professor Heather Ann Thompson will talk about the historical and contemporary importance of the 1971 Attica prison uprising at a public lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its […]

It’s almost here: Dr. Heather Ann Thompson discusses Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, finalist for the National Book Award, tomorrow at Center City at 6:30pm and at the Gantt Center at 2PM for a reception and book signing. Please join us! Details and registration above. 

Demographic changes challenge the cultural narrative about what it means to grow up in and to live in the South, and UNC Charlotte’s Center for the Study of the New South looks at these questions in a series of 2016-17 events that kicks off with Puerto Rican Southern Belle: From Harlemworld to Disney World to […]

Super Tuesday and the North Carolina primary are over. How will the 2016 presidential candidates attract (or not attract) Latino/a voters in the general election this November? Dr. David Leal, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and Federico Rios, ‎Program Director of Elementary School Services at Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, […]

Thomas Negri of Nashville, Tenn., a long-time advocate of diversity, inclusiveness and opportunity for immigrants and refugees, will deliver UNC Charlotte’s annual Levine Lecture Wednesday, March 2, 2016, on Immigration Integration and Inclusiveness. The 2016 Levine Lecture, held at the Levine Museum of the New South (200 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC 28202), will focus on […]

How do Latinos and African Americans in Charlotte get along? Since they often live near each other and deal with similar issues, do they discuss such matters? Or do the respective communities remain primarily to themselves? The answers vary, depending on who’s answering the questions. To get a better sense of how these communities deal […]

As a Charlotte resident, have you ever wondered how the landscape of our population is changing as our city grows? UNC Charlotte and its Center for the Study of the New South, as part of our partnership with the Levine Museum of the New South, are hosting a panel discussion about Charlotte’s Latino population, engaging […]