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Charles D. Thompson, Jr.

Teacher. Author. Filmmaker. Photographer.

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    • Rock Castle Home
    • Border Crossing 101
    • Faces of Time | Los Rostros del Tiempo
    • Homeplace Under Fire
    • Brother Towns | Pueblos Hermanos
    • Plate Tectonics
    • We Shall Not Be Moved
    • The Guestworker
  • Books
    • Going Over Home
    • Border Odyssey
    • Spirits of Just Men
    • The Old German Baptist Brethren
    • Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations
    • The Human Cost of Food
    • Maya Identities and the Violence of Place
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Jan 28 2021

Being Hank Aaron, Just For a Moment, Beyond that Forsythia

It was 1968, and I was an 11-year-old white boy in Appalachian Virginia imagining I was Hank Aaron. Home from school for the summer, a small group of us gathered for mornings in our backyard to play Whiffle ball — with a plastic bat and ball, and bases made from scraps of wood. A forsythia […]

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Mar 06 2020

Farm Aid Book Review: Going Over Home

Originally published in Farm Aid

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In 2014, as Farm Aid planted the seeds for our first festival in North Carolina, we were introduced to documentary filmmaker Charles D. Thompson, Jr. From our first conversation, it was abundantly clear that Charlie’s life experience—as a storyteller, farmer, farm and rural advocate, and social and racial justice advocate—was perfect for understanding a huge […]

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Originally published in Farm Aid

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Dec 12 2018

New Mural Honors NC Farmworkers

This fall, the painting studio at the Rubenstein Arts Center was transformed by students in Charlie Thompson’s class “Farmworkers in North Carolina” and local Durham artist Cornelio Campos. During their arts project residency, students and Campos collaborated to create a mural inspired by their research of farmworkers in the Durham area. Duke CAST member Ilona Stanback […]

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Dec 12 2015

From both sides: Professor travels the U.S.-Mexico border and brings his story to UNM lecture

Originally published in Albuquerque Journal

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Almost everyone has an opinion about the U.S.-Mexican border. But Duke University anthropology professor Charles D. Thompson Jr. has a challenge for his students and anyone else before they crystallize their thoughts. My recommendation is simple. Before you make up your mind on immigration, get to know an immigrant – at least […]

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Originally published in Albuquerque Journal

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Nov 13 2015

WECH: Interview with Charlie Thompson, author of Border Odyssey

Originally published in WECH - Emory & Henry College

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Originally published in WECH - Emory & Henry College

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