November 10th, 2022: C19 Seminar Hosts Reading of Black Towns, Black Futures with Africana Studies Department

Cover of Black Towns, Black Futures by Dr. Karla Slocum

In preparation for the University of Tennessee to host the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference (INCS) in April of 2023, the C19 Seminar—alongside Africana studies— hosted a read of Dr. Carla Slocum’s work from Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West, as she is one of the keynote speakers presenting in April at INCS. Dr. Delisa Hawkes led the forum in November of 2022, which covered the first three sections of Dr. Slocum’s book.