Nishani Frazier, Mellon Digital Humanities/African American Studies Talk, 2/22

As part of its search for a Director of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture, ARHU invites you to attend Dr. Nishani Frazier's talk:

African American Studies and Digital Humanities at the Crossroads:

Recovery, Dissemination and Activist Intervention as an Intentional Model

Fifty years ago, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) issued a declaration for black power. This pivotal moment shaped the organization's direction toward black economic development and opened new doors to government and community partnerships.  African American Studies, public history, and oral history methodologies played central roles in the recovery of this fairly unknown period in CORE's existence.  However, this approach also required a philosophical embrace of power sharing and open access during historical production.  This talk explains how this process eventually became a model for intersecting Black Scholarship and Digital Humanities.

 
Dr. Nishani Frazier (Ph.D . Columbia University) is Associate Professor of History and Affiliate of Global and Intercultural Studies (Black World Studies Program) at Miami University of Ohio. Her talk is drawn from her forthcoming book, Harambee Nation: Cleveland, CORE and Rise of Black Power (University of Arkansas Press, fall 2016), which examines the philosophical evolution of the Cleveland chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality toward Black Power and the chapter’s influence in perpetuating national CORE’s Black Power policy. Dr. Frazier’s areas of specialization are: U.S. History, African-American History, Public history, Black internationalism, Women’s and feminist history, Culinary history, and Digital Humanities.

For more information, please contact Zita Nunes, znunes@umd.edu.