Pritzker Fellow Sarah Smarsh on "Class & Rural America: Part 1"

(Open to Current UChicago Students Only)

Wednesday, January 19

12:30pm-1:45pm

The so-called rural-urban divide looms large in today's political calculations and cultural assumptions. Red and blue electoral maps at state and county levels reveal consequential gulfs of identity and ideology between city and country. However, such maps fall flat in conveying the whole story; most Trump voters were urban or suburban whites, for instance, while progressive, working-class activism is alive in many "red" and rural spaces. We will move beyond the familiar caricature of the white, working-class conservative to discuss the reality of rural America - an immense, complicated space that is by no means a political, racial or cultural monolith.

Special Guest (via Zoom): Dr. Veronica Womack, executive director of the Rural Studies Institute at Georgia College and State University

Pritzker Fellows seminars are off the record and open to current UChicago students only. A Zoom link will be sent to your UChicago email address 60 minutes prior to the seminar start time.

If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Ashley Jorn (ashleyjorn@uchicago.edu).