WHAT: Four Scholars Discuss Intimacy and Race

WHO: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of New York Times bestseller Wench (Amistad, 2011) and Balm (Amistad, 2015)

Trudier Harris, professor of English at UA

Sharony Green, assistant professor of history at UA, and author of Remember Me to Louisa: Black – White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015)

Lisa Ze-Winters, associate professor of English at Wayne State University, and author of The Mulatto Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom and Desire in the Black Transatlantic (University of Georgia Press, 2016)

WHEN: Jan. 26 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

WHERE: Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center, 620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa

WHY: “It’s an important discussion especially now,” Green said. “What if we could imagine the degree to which we are all complex people with a shared past that is also pretty complicated? What then would we make of all the things that keep us apart, racially and otherwise? The biggest hurdle to even thinking in this way is knowing we’d have to next make adjustments in our attitudes. That’s where the real work is.”