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Take On The South
TAKE ON THE SOUTH is a series of eight, one-hour, live-to-tape debates produced by the South Carolina Educational Television network for the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies (ISS) under a grant provided by Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. The Foundation’s mission is, “to improve education in the American South by funding its schools and students, preserving its history, encouraging responsible scholarship, and promoting the memory and values of our spiritual founders.” The grant for Take on the South was awarded to USC to bring serious academic argument to a wider audience. The first edition will air October 2008 and will be followed by another in the Spring of 2009. Among the topics that will be explored in those future editions are the economy, the environment and the arts and how they impact the South.Take On The South Episodes
Does the Road to the White House Run Through the South?
The one thing political pundits all seem to agree on this election season is that this presidential contest is one for the ages. With no incumbent, wars on two fronts, and a problem-plagued economy, Americans find their attention increasingly riveted to the presidential campaign.
So, in 2008, the question remains: Does the road to the White House run through the South?
That was the subject of debate recently at ETV between noted scholars/authors, Earl Black and Thomas Schaller.
Black is a political science professor at Rice University, and the co-author of “Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics,” and Schaller is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and author of “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.”
Their debate, moderated by noted SC historian Dr. Walter Edgar, host of “Walter Edgar’s Journal” on ETV Radio, and history professor and the Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at USC, airs on ETV on Thursday, Oct. 16 from 9-10 p.m.
Thursday - October 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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Take On The South
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