MURFREESBORO — The
next edition of the “MTSU On the Record” radio program will feature a visiting
lecturer and expert on civil rights and racial history.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Thomas J. Sugrue, this
year’s 2013 Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecturer, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 16, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, on WMOT-FM (89.5
and www.wmot.org).
Sugrue is scheduled to speak at MTSU at 7 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 26, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of the Business and Aerospace
Building. His topic will be “Race, Inequality and Diversity in Obama’s
America.”
A specialist in 20th century American politics
and urban history, Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology
and director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum at the University of
Pennsylvania. His most recent book is “Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the
Burden of Race (2010).”
“I think the perception of Obama, the reading of his
comments on race one way or another, are the projections of people’s hopes that
Obama is really a civil rights activist dressed as a president or fears that
somehow Barack Obama is a polarizing figure who’s going to play on and
exacerbate deep-rooted divisions and divides in America,” said Sugrue.
The Strickland Visiting Scholar program allows students to
meet with renowned scholars whose expertise spans a variety of historical
issues. The Strickland family established the program in memory of Dr. Roscoe
Lee Strickland Jr., a longtime professor of European history at MTSU and the
first president of the university’s Faculty Senate.
To listen to previous programs, go to the “Audio Clips”
archives at www.mtsunews.com.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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