[Ronald Primeau, Jeffrey C. Wray and Matthew L.M. Fletcher speak at a roundtable discussion moderated by Gariel Dotto].

Gabriel Dotto, Director of the Michigan State University Press, moderates the second of three presentations and a roundtable discussion at a symposium entitled, Dramatization and context : a symposium and roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music history written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Featured presenters are: Ronald Primeau, Professor of English at Central Michigan University (Sandra Seaton’s South-Siders); Jeffrey C. Wray, Associate Professor in the Department of English at MSU; Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Associate Professor at the MSU College of Law. Primeau speaks on the influences in Seaton’s life and work and her perspective on the South-Siders of Chicago. Wray uses film clips to illustrate his points about the tension inherent in black American life and being identified socially and politically as part of a group rather than as an individual. Fletcher comments on the law as rhetoric and uses examples from oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving American Indian interests. Includes a question and answer session.

Recorded at Michigan State University Museum, Nov. 12, 2010, by the Vincent Voice Library.