DeLisa Hawkes, on "Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and Black/Indigenous Solidarities"

In this talk, Dr. DeLisa D. Hawkes (University of Tennessee) will discuss how the under-examined writer Olivia Ward Bush-Banks reflects on Black and Indigenous solidarities in her early twentieth-century literary works and the value of teaching-in-place to thinking about the intersections between African American Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the History Department, the Carl and Sally Gable Distinguished Chair in Southern Colonial History, and the Institute for Native American Studies at the University of Georgia.