• Dr. Jennie Burnet, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville, received the 2013 Elliot Skinner Award from the Association of Africanist Anthropology for her book, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda,” (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). The association described the book as “an outstanding piece of research and writing (that) makes a great contribution to anthropology, African studies, gender and the treatment of violence.” Her research interests center on Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Africa, and the United States, where she examines structure, agency, and human subjectivity and such topics as race; ethnicity; gender and sexuality; violence, genocide, and peace; and development studies. (Dr. Monica Udvardy is contactperson)

Dr. McGuire is author of the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – a History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. 

Her groundbreaking book gives the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began and how it was in part started in protest of the ritualistic rape of black women by white men. Dr. McGuire begins her book with the story of the rape in 1944 of a 24-year old mother and sharecropper by 7 white men. 

The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator to take on this case; a woman named Rosa Parks. At the Dark End of the Street is a controversial, moving, and courageous book.

Learn more about the author at http://atthedarkendofthestreet.com

Parking is available at 401 Hilltop Avenue (next to W.T. Young Library).  Visitor Rates: $2/hour | $16/exit maximum

This lot is to accommodate visitors to the W.T. Young Library. Customers exiting when the cashier booth is in operation will be charged the standard fee (above). Accepted payment methods are cash, check (with driver's license) and credit card (Visa/MasterCard/AMEX/Discover Card).

Handicap parking:  Accessible parking is available in the parking lot.

Street parking near the Library is on Woodland Ave. between Hilltop Ave. and Columbia Ave.,in front of the new Woodland Glen dormitories.  At that time of day street parking might also be found on Columbia or Woodland.

American Book Award winnder Emily Raboteau will read from and discuss her most recent work "Searching for Zion:  The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora"

Sponsored by African American & Africana Studies Program, English Creative Writing Program, Jewish Studies Program, and Social Theory Program.