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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Williams, Lawrence H.. "A Peculiar People: Simmons University, Louisville, Kentucky, 1879-1930," University of Iowa, December 1985. Advisor: Jonathan W. Walton (11, 8, 6)
This dissertation is a cultural history of Simmons University in Louisville, Kentucky. Established by the black Baptists of Kentucky, it trained most of the black teachers, ministers, lawyers and physicians in the state. The study concludes that black Baptists of the mid nineteenth and early twentieth century were as interested as whites in advancing worldwide Anglo-Protestantism. It examines a unique aspect of black missionary education, the all-black-owned and -controlled school. As an all-black institution, Simmons suffered from severe financial problems, yet it survived for fifty-one years and provided the only college program for blacks in Kentucky for twenty-six years.
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