Presented by PIHAKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, COCKAYNE FUND, ANSON MILLS, TAQUERIA DEL SOL, DO GOOD FUND
Family
The final weekend of our 2020 Fall Symposium wrestles with questions of Family, with blood, legacy, and identity. Follow journalist José Ralat on a Sur-Mex themed road trip with his son in the year 2040, complete with potlikker salsas and curry powder-dusted churros. Sampling an assemblage of hog killing narratives from his Mississippi Delta family, scholar Brian Foster frames a conversation between past, present, and plural futures, realized through practice and work. We close with a film by Zaire Love, awarding this year’s John Egerton Prize to Ashtin Berry, a hospitality advocate and educator who champions historical and contemporary contributions of the Black Diaspora across food, beverage, and agriculture.
Brian Foster teaches sociology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he studies race, culture, and inequality with attention to post-1970s Black cultures in the rural South. His forthcoming book I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (December 2020) explores the attitudes and sounds of Black life through the homes, memories, and worlds of Black folks in contemporary Mississippi.
- Year2020
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
Presented by PIHAKIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, COCKAYNE FUND, ANSON MILLS, TAQUERIA DEL SOL, DO GOOD FUND
Family
The final weekend of our 2020 Fall Symposium wrestles with questions of Family, with blood, legacy, and identity. Follow journalist José Ralat on a Sur-Mex themed road trip with his son in the year 2040, complete with potlikker salsas and curry powder-dusted churros. Sampling an assemblage of hog killing narratives from his Mississippi Delta family, scholar Brian Foster frames a conversation between past, present, and plural futures, realized through practice and work. We close with a film by Zaire Love, awarding this year’s John Egerton Prize to Ashtin Berry, a hospitality advocate and educator who champions historical and contemporary contributions of the Black Diaspora across food, beverage, and agriculture.
Brian Foster teaches sociology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he studies race, culture, and inequality with attention to post-1970s Black cultures in the rural South. His forthcoming book I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life (December 2020) explores the attitudes and sounds of Black life through the homes, memories, and worlds of Black folks in contemporary Mississippi.
- Year2020
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
