April
24, 1998
								Contact:
Katherine Jackson
									   (804)
924-3629


HISTORIAN TO DISCUSS BOOK ON RACE


	David R. Roediger, professor of history at the University of
Minnesota,
will discuss his new book, "Black on White: Black Writers on What it
Means
to Be White," on Monday, April 27, at 3:30 p.m. in the University of
Virginia Bookstore Mezzanine.   A reception will follow the talk.
	Roediger is also the author of the 1991 book, "Wages of
Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class." 
 	Joining the discussion will be Eric Lott, associate professor of
English; Grace Hale, assistant professor of history, and Tejumola
Olaniyan, assistant professor of English.
	The talk is co-sponsored by Brown College at Monroe Hill, the
Special Lectures Committee, the history department, the English
department, the Southern Seminar, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute
for Afro-American and African Studies.
	For more information, call Scot A. French, assistant director of
the Woodson Institute, at (804) 924-8889.
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