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What Great Things Conferences Bring: Global Black Girlhood and the Fellowship/Scholarship of Black Women

What Great Things Conferences Bring: Global Black Girlhood and the Fellowship/Scholarship of Black Women

March 22, 2017 · by sd · in CFP, Conferences, Scholarship

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in the Global History of Black Girlhood Conference at the University of Virginia, organized by Cori Fields and LaKisha Simmons. My head is still buzzing with all of the ideas that…

Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Female Performance

Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Female Performance

March 7, 2017 · by sd · in Digital Humanities, Music

This project  focuses on black women’s performance of James Weldon Johnson’s  “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to examine what these evocations might reveal about black subjectivities, diaspora, and identity formation vis-a-vis discourses on national belonging. Part of a larger Omeka-based project called…

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Tech & Sensibility comes from my engagements with technology both professionally as a journalist and in academia as a professor. It is a play on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, that notion of striking a balance in life between logic (sense) and emotion (sensibility). Yet, this is also about the tensions within the notion of balancing the two. Tech & Sensibility looks at the intersections of technology: race, gender, sexuality, culture, identity, nation, and more and invites us to explore both the tensions and the delicate acts of balance that we employ daily.

Lift Every Voice and Sing

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