[Students] CLiC talk - February 21st

[Kim Jefferies]

CLiC Talk: The Other Side of the Track.

The Converging Literacies Center and the Department of Literature and
Languages invite you to attend the screening of the documentary film The
Other Side of the Track centered on the history of the Norris Community
of Commerce.
After the screening there will be talk with the protagonists of the
documentary: James Conrad, Opal Pannell, Billy Reed, and Harry Turner.

Date: Monday, February 21st 2011
Place: Hall of Languages, Room 203
Time: 3:00 p.m.

You will find below the synopsis of the documentary, and attached the
flyer of the event.


"What did segregation mean from an urbanistic point of view? What did it
mean in Texas? Is segregation still an issue? My hypothesis is that
Commerce, TX, as many towns in the South of the United States, keeps in
its urbanization the signs of a recent past of discrimination. Through
this documentary - as a filmmaker with the attitude of an ethnographer -
I let Commerce speak about itself. The slow rhythm of a small town was
filmed along with the stories of its citizens who made its (hi)story.
The urbanization of Commerce is reconstructed through the stories and
the places of the African Americans who live in the Norris community, a
neighborhood separated from the rest of the city by a railroad. The
importance of this work lies in its pioneer aspect. This is the first
documentary that recounts the segregation in this area of Northeast
Texas."

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