Inaugural R3 Event: The Historical Exploitation of Black and Brown Bodies at UNC: Learning from the Past to Change the Present

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Panelists:

BRANDON BAYNE is an Associate Professor and the current Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies. He specializes in religion in the Americas, especially violence and memory in colonial evangelistic encounters. His first book, Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain (Fordham University Press), demonstrates how Catholic priests invoked the rhetoric of martyrdom and redemptive sacrifice to justify epidemic disease, colonial dislocation, and the territorial dispossession of indigenous communities. His current research focuses on issues of race, religion, memory, and erasure, connecting the 20^th century memorialization of colonial missionaries in the U. S. southwest to white supremacist monuments in the American south and their purposeful erasure of Indigenous and Black histories.

Professor Bayne teaches courses on Religion in the America, Indigenous Christianities, and Religion and Violence. He has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, master’s degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and doctorate from Harvard University.

LAURA HART is a technical services archivist in Wilson Special Collections Library. She writes and edits archival description chiefly for the Southern Historical Collection and Southern Folklife Collection and co-chairs the University Libraries’ Conscious Editing Steering Committee, which guides descriptive practices and narrative framing that is centered in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

JAMES LELOUDIS is Professor of History, Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina, and Director of the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. With Professor Patricia Parker (Communication), he co-chairs UNC’s Commission on History, Race, and a Way Forward. He earned his BA in History with highest honors from UNC in 1977, an MA from Northwestern University in 1979, and a PhD from UNC in 1989. He has published extensively on the history of the American South. His latest book, Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina, will be available from UNC Press in late August. He is a recipient of the Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Award, the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award, and a number of awards and prizes for his publications from national and international scholarly organizations.

SONOE NAKASONE is the Community Archivist for the University Libraries’ Mellon funded Community Driven Archives project, housed in the Southern Historical Collection of Wilson Special Collections Library. Community Driven Archives seeks to address imbalances in the archival record by supporting marginalized communities to collect and preserve their own historical records. Sonoe is also co-chair of the Libraries’ Conscious Editing Steering Committee.

DONNA NIXON is Electronic Resources Librarian and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law. She licenses and manages the law library’s online resources, including journals, electronic books and media. She also teaches legal research and Introduction to Law of the U.S. She is curator of the digital collection Law School First – The African Americans Who Integrated UNC-Chapel Hill and the North Carolina Law Review essay which document the successful legal fight by the five men who integrated UNC-Chapel Hill.

Donna earned a degree in computer science from Brooklyn College, her law degree from Stanford Law School, and her master’s in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

RELATED RESOURCES

Recommendations related to the integration of UNC-Chapel Hill:

• Oral history interviews (audio & transcript):

  • Oral History Interview with Harvey E. Beech (1996)
  • Oral history interview with J. Kenneth Lee by Eugene Pfaff (1980)
  • Interview with John Kenneth Lee (1995)
  • Oral History Interview with Floyd B. McKissick Sr. (1989)
  • Oral History Interview with Floyd B. McKissick Sr. (1973)
  • Oral History Interview with Conrad Pearson (1979) (Durham attorney who brought lawsuit against UNC-Chapel Hill)
  • Histories of Home: A Walk with Northside Neighbors

• Books:

  • Making Civil Rights Law (Mark V. Tushnet, 1994)
  • Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights  by Genna Rae McNeil (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983)

Recommendations related to Laura Hart’s presentation about tracing the life stories of the enslaved:

• North Carolina Slave Narratives: the lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy & Thomas H. Jones (2003), edited by William L. Andrews
• Slavery and class in the American South : a generation of slave narrative testimony, 1840-1865,  edited  by William L. Andrews
• The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chestnut
• Black Freedom and the University of North Carolina, 1793-1960, a dissertation by Yonni Chapman
• Reclaiming the University of the People, a dissertation by Charlotte Fryar

Recommendations concerning race in NC:

• Hanover or the Persecution of the Lowly : A History of the Wilmington Massacre (1901) by Jack Thorne
• Wilmington on Fire (documentary)
• Wilmington’s lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy

Recommendations related to Prof. Jim Leloudis’ presentation:

• The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory, by Adam H. Domby

Recommended archival information:

• The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History

Other recommendations:

• Print News and Raise Hell: The Daily Tar Heel and the Evolution of a Modern University, by Ken Zogry (UNC Press, 2018)
• Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina, by William Billingsley (University of George Press, 1999)
• UNC A to Z, by Nicholas Graham and Cecilia Moore (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)