Black and white Southerners have “known” each other for centuries in ways not easily discussed. This conversation brings together four women scholars who have carefully addressed the subject of how these two groups have “intimately,” and not just sexually, encountered one another in complex ways before the Civil War and beyond. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the New York Times bestseller Wench, joins Trudier Harris, Professor of English, University of Alabama, Sharony Green, Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama, and […]