UNC Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature

Caryl PhillipsAcclaimed British novelist *Caryl Phillips* will read from /Dancing in the Dark/ , winner of the 2006 PEN/Beyond the Margins Award, this Thursday, October 4, at 8 pm, in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre at the Center for Dramatic Art. Free and open to the public.

Born in St. Kitts, Phillips grew up in Leeds and studied English Literature at Oxford University. A regular contributor to /The Guardian/ and /The New Republic//, he is the author of eight novels and numerous works of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays. Phillips received /Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for /Crossing the River/, which was also shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is currently a professor of English at Yale. Read more about Phillips.

Caryl Phillips’ reading is the keynote event for a an all-day conference *“Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Advent of American Mass Culture, 1890-1930,” * which will take place on Friday, October 5, at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities , University Room 109. Addressing topics ranging from popular music to celebrity and organized sports, the conference will highlight the role of African Americans as creators, disseminators, and consumers of mass culture at a time when Americans were pioneering modern mass culture.

The conference is free and open to the public. No registration is required, and you are welcome to attend any number of sessions. See the complete program for details.
Organized by UNC professor of history W. Fitzhugh Brundage , " Beyond Blackface" is made possible through the generous support of the Center for the Study of the American South, the Office of the Associate Dean of Social Sciences, the Diversity Initiative Fund, the University Program in Cultural Studies, the Associate Provost for International Affairs, the Department of History, the Department of English, the Curriculum in American Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, the Department of Dramatic Arts, and the University of North Carolina Press.