Malinda Maynor Lowery

history professor

Worked in Chapel Hill
Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quotations with a citation

But our granular understanding of places is critical to who we are—not just North Carolina, not just Robeson County, but the dozens of settlements within our territory.

In spite of the forces that wished to annihilate us, sometimes in the name of Christianity, we are still here because of our relationship to God and one another.

Not so much the songs themselves, but the way we sing, especially the emphasis on harmony and blend—the need for every person to have a part but no one to stand out—is what demonstrates our togetherness and uniqueness.

I recorded some of these hymns twenty-two years ago, and even now I can hear the low hum, the polyphonic tenor harmonies, the melody buried well within a nest of knowledge generations old.

Embracing contradictions, not merely seeking relief or redemption from them, is a hallmark of Lumbee values.