Abstract:
Hinton grew up in Raleigh's projects and at age fifty-one, earned his Ph.D. at Yale University. Now head of the African Studies Program at New York University, he discusses growing up in Raleigh, race relations, and his involvement in the new documentary--\"Moving Midway.\" Midway was a plantation near Knightdale owned by the Hinton family. Robert Hinton's ancestors worked there as slaves.