U.VA. HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENTS HOST CONFERENCE
	ON SOUTHERN HISTORY AND RACE

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 22 -- The University of
Virginia's Southern History Program will host its third annual
graduate student conference, "Telling About the South," on race and
southern history, March 23-24 in Monroe Hall Room 130.
	The conference, free and open to the public, will focus on
the role of race and history in establishing identity.  Some 12
graduate students from colleges and universities across the country
will present papers.  Forty to 50 graduate students are expected to
participate in the discussion of such topics as the ambiguities of
southern identity, the identities of black and white Americans,
gender and respectability after the Civil War, segregation and
African-American quests for citizenship.
	Juliette Landphair, a U.Va. graduate student in history,
will deliver the keynote address on "Race, Religion and Reality in
Southern History" at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 23, followed by
other student presentations.
	A preliminary roundtable discussion on "Race in the 21st
Century" will take place on Friday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at Minor
Hall auditorium.  Panelists include:  Thomas Holt, a University of
Chicago professor of African-American history; Paul Gaston, U.Va.
history professor; John Mason, assistant U.Va. history professor;
and Michele Mitchell, a fellow at U.Va.'s Carter G. Woodson
Institute for African-American and African Studies.
	This year's conference will be dedicated to the memory of
Armstead L. Robinson, founder and director of the Carter G. Woodson
Institute, who died last year.
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March 21, 1996

For more information about the conference, contact Juliette
Landphair at (804) 924-7146.