Life, Community, and History

About the Session

Jodi Skipper, author of “Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South” talks about life, community, history, and the role storytelling plays in the preservation of history in this CLS discussion.

About the Presenter

Jodi Skipper is a professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. She is also the co-editor of “Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Exploration of a U.S. Region,” which is a collection of original essays that explore the interdisciplinary study of the American South in regional, national, and global contexts.