秘密研究所

USA to Hold Talk on Racial Discrimination in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South

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Posted on October 10, 2017

Joy Washington

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The 秘密研究所, with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will host a talk on 鈥淩acial Discrimination & Institutionalized Violence in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South鈥� from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the Terrace Room in the Student Center on South鈥檚 campus. This event is free and open to the public.

According to Dr. David Meola, program organizer and the Bert and Fanny Meisler Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at South Alabama, students, scholars and the campus community will explore the involvement of governments and racial violence in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South within their specific historical contexts.

鈥淲e would like to invite the Mobile community to join us in discussing the histories of minority groups who have been oppressed here in Alabama and in Germany,鈥� Meola noted. 鈥淭hese timely conversations are important in building relationships and understanding within our communities.鈥�

The panel of speakers will include several scholars and Meola. His talk will be on 鈥淛ewish German Lives under Siege.鈥� Dr. Kern Jackson, director of African American Studies and assistant professor of English at South, will speak on 鈥淲ithout Sanctuary: Lynching in Alabama History.鈥�  Dr. Phil Carr, the Chief Calvin McGhee Professor of Native American Studies and director of the Archaeology Museum at South, will speak on 鈥淒enial of Equal Education to Native Americans,鈥� and Dr. Jake Newsome, campus outreach program officer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will talk about 鈥淩ace and Violence in the Nazi Campaign against Homosexuality.鈥�

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