BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:694c14bd-e886-416f-96fc-c40244be779d@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20260911T152916Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T200000 SUMMARY:The Mask of Memory DESCRIPTION:At Charleston Library Society. Having recent acclaim in place s such as the Met and High Museum for his work with Hear Me Now: Black P otters of Old Edgefield\, South Carolina\, University of Michigan profes sor Jason Young teaches and researches in the fields of Nineteenth-Centu ry United States History\, African American History\, and the African Di aspora. Given his specialty across history of art\, religion\, and folk culture\, we are honored to host Jason along with Dr. Bernie Powers to d iscuss his latest book The Mask of Memory \, which explores the persiste nce of myths that framed the historical memory of slavery through a focu s on the elite white who created them. Purchase Tickets HERE! Please not e\, we’ve updated our ticketing system—purchases now go through Neon Eve nts for a smoother registration experience. For any issues\, please call our Front Desk at 843-723-9912. If you are unable to attend the event\, but would like to purchase one or more signed copies\, please visit Bux ton B ooks here . About the Book How Southern white elites shaped the hi storical memory of enslavement. Many of the sights and sounds that Ameri cans associate with slavery are rooted in a grandiose historical myth. T he image of the Big House\, sitting atop carefully manicured rolling gre en hills\, is in large part a fantasy—as is the idea of the plantation a s an expansive family home to chivalrous planters and content slaves. St ill\, these myths persist. Jason R. Young explores the persistence of th ese myths and the historical memory of slavery by focusing on the elite white mythmakers who helped shape our understanding of slavery. In the e arly twentieth century\, a group of white writers\, artists\, and perfor mers from the cultural hub of Charleston\, South Carolina\, created and curated a highly sanitized view of slavery. They imagined a once and fut ure plantation society that would reestablish them as the proper heirs o f the slave past. In the process\, they crafted a set of dangerously dur able and virulent stereotypes about slavery. Focusing on literature\, ar t\, and performance\, Young examines both the power and the folly of the se ideas. In uncovering their origins\, The Mask of Memory resists these racial fantasies and challenges their stubborn resurgence in our own ti me. About Jason R. Young Jason R. Young is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He teaches and researches in the fields of Nine teenth-Century United States History\, African American History\, and th e African Diaspora. He specializes in the history of art\, religion\, an d folk culture. Jason Young is the author of Rituals of Resistance: Afri can Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry Region of Georgia and South Carolina in the Era of Slavery \, an exploration into the religiou s and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcount ry region of Georgia and South Carolina. He is also the co-editor\, with Edward J. Blum\, of The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflect ions \, a collection of articles that examines Du Bois’s personal religi ous convictions along with his scholarly examinations of religion. Jason Young is also the Co-Curator of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old E dgefield\, South Carolina\, a touring exhibition that opened at the Metr opolitan Museum (MET) in 2022 before traveling to the Museum of Fine Art (MFA)\, Boston\, the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and th e High Museum. Young has published articles in The Journal of African Am erican History\, The Journal of Africana Religions\, and The Journal of Southern Religion\, among others. His latest book project\, The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy after the Civil War will be published in 20 26 by the University of North Carolina Press. About Dr. Bernard Powers B ernard Powers\, professor emeritus of history at the College\, is the in augural director of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston. D r. Powers taught in the Department of History from 1992 to 2018\, servin g stints as department chair and director of the master’s program in his tory. He has published numerous works on African-American social and cul tural history. His book Black Charlestonians: A Social History 1822-1885 (University of Arkansas Press\, 1994) won a Choice Award for Best Acade mic Books. He also co-authored We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel (Thomas Nelson\, 2016). His latest book is 101 African A mericans Who Shaped South Carolina (USC Press\, 2020). Powers was a memb er of the board of directors of the International African American Museu m (IAAM) and briefly served as its interim CEO\; the museum opened in Ch arleston in June 2023. As a member of both CSSC\, IAAM and other entitie s with similar missions\, Powers is working to build relationships with a goal of establishing joint public programs and academic partnerships. About the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston The College of C harleston’s Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston fosters a deep er public understanding of slavery and its complex legacies. It supports academic research and teaching that examine the role of slavery in the history of the College and our region. The Center engages its community\ , area residents\, and the general public in collaborative programming a nd dialog to disseminate new knowledge and to promote social justice\, r acial healing\, and reconciliation.\n\nTickets: https://charlestonlibrar ysociety.org/event/the-mask-of-memory/\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/ev ent/694c14bd-e886-416f-96fc-c40244be779d LOCATION:Charleston Library Society\, 164 King St\, Charleston\, SC 29401 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/694c14bd-e886-416f-96fc-c40244be779 d STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR