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GerShun Avilez Featured in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

September 28, 2020 English

Still from the play, Day of Absence

Avilez's featured essay draws connections between Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence and Black Lives Matter activism.

Professor GerShun Avilez's latest essay "Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform and Dramatic Inversion in Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence" was featured in Study the South, a peer-reviewed, multimedia, online journal, published and managed by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

The essay draws connections between Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence and our current moment, especially Black Lives Matter activism.

Read "Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform and Dramatic Inversion in Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence".