The Michigan Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development, in partnership with the new Metropolitan History Workshop, presents:

SOUTHERN POLITICS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM

A workshop featuring the scholarship of Joseph Crespino (Emory University) and Kevin Kruse (Princeton University), moderated by Matthew Lassiter (University of Michigan)

Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Room 1014, Tisch Hall

Joseph Crespino received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Emory University. He is the author of a book-in-progress, THE LAST DAYS OF JIM CROW: DESEGREGATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN CONSERVATISM, under contract to Princeton University Press as part of the Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America series. His pre-circulated material is drawn from the latter chapters of his book project, including sections on the conservative southern attack against “de facto” segregation in the North and the political and legal battles over racial policies at private Christian schools in Mississippi.

Kevin Kruse received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of the forthcoming book, WHITE FLIGHT: ATLANTA AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CONSERVATISM, to be published by Princeton University Press in September 2005 as part of the Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America series. He is also the coeditor, with Thomas Sugrue, of THE NEW SUBURBAN HISTORY, forthcoming in 2006 from the University of Chicago Press. His pre-circulated material includes the Introduction to his new book WHITE FLIGHT as well as the volume’s final chapter, “City Limits: Urban Separatism and Suburban Secession.”