Project Mosaic: Digital Humanities and African American Studies
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PROJECT MOSAIC: ZORA NEALE HURSTON AFRICA AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY COORDINATOR, AFRICA AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM NITLE Symposium : Inventing the Future Local Collections and Liberal Education in History Arlington, Virginia- April 16 th -17 th , 2012
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At Rollins College, Julian Chambliss led a project that used community-based research to promote faculty dialogue and enhance student learning. Using former Rollins College faculty member Zora Neale Hurston as an orienting subject, this project brought multiple departments together under the banner of the Africa and African-American Studies (AAAS) Program to examine local history and culture. The project facilitated the inclusion of African-American content into participating classes using details of Hurston’s work as author, anthropologist, and her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, as a vehicle to delve deeper into the disciplinary focus of each the participating class. Culminating in an online repository of material, this project leveraged technology, archival research, and community resources to promote greater engagement.
Transcript of Project Mosaic: Digital Humanities and African American Studies
PROJECT MOSAIC: ZORA NEALE HURSTON AFRICA AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
JULIAN C. CHAMBLISSDEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
COORDINATOR, AFRICA AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
NITLE Symposium : Inventing the FutureLocal Collections and Liberal Education in History
Arlington, Virginia- April 16th-17th, 2012
The Social Revolution (?)
Social Confusion
African-American Experience
Gilded Age, Progressive Era, and 1920s
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow damned up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and who feelings are hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish of my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world – I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston, How it feels to be Colored Me (1928)
The Goal
The goal of Project Mosaic is to promote synergistic dialogue among faculty and enhance student understanding of the African-American experience. Using the prolific work of Zora Neale Hurston as a central theme, the project brought together faculty from Anthropology, History, Art and Art History, and Education to strengthen the Africa and African-American Studies (AAAS) Program at Rollins.
The Grant
Funded through an Associated Colleges of the South Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Renewal Grant.
Grant Participants Julian Chambliss, History, Claire Strom, History, Ashley Kitsler,
Anthropology, Dawn Roe, Art History, Robert Moore, Anthropology, Susan Libby, Art History, Scott Hewitt, Education , Creston Davis, Religion, Rollins College, “Project Mosaic: Zora Neale Hurston-A Multidisciplinary Exploration of African American Culture”
