The Color Purple: The Intersection of Art and Reality in the Presentation of Rural African American Life Prior to the Civil Rights Movement

Valerie Grim is a Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She chaired the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies from 2004-2016. She has researched and published in the areas of twentieth and twenty-first century African American rural history. Her publications include a book titled “The Co-existent of White Paternalism and Black Self-Determinism in a Mississippi Delta Community 1910-1970” and an article titled “The Experience of Rural Women, Children, and Families of Color in U.S. and Global Communities”. She also conducts workshops and provides lectures about rural Black experiences in the United States and the African Diaspora as well as consulting on museums educational programs and exhibitions concerning history, race, politics, gender, culture and community, and life among rural Black peoples. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for scholarship, teaching, and engagement.

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