Author Talk: Dr. Tiya Miles

1070 Partners Way,Raleigh NC 27606

27 October, 2022

Description

Dr. Tiya Miles is a MacArthur Fellow, Harvard Professor of History, and National Book Award winner for the nonfiction book, All That She Carried. In this book, Dr. Miles traces the story of a family keepsake–a small cotton sack– that was handed down for three generations and embroidered with a family history in 1921. Using this object, known as Ashley’s sack, as a catalyst, she pieces together the fragmentary archival information about the object and its history to tell a sweeping story about the resiliency of Black motherhood in the antebellum American South through the Jim Crow era. All That She Carried will be available for purchase and signing on-site. Presented by the NC State University Libraries, the Department of Art + Design, Interdisciplinary Studies, the African American Cultural Center, the Women’s Center, and the MFA program in creative writing.