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Making Black Public Humanities in South Florida: Fugitive Pedagogies, Self-Making, and Memory Work
Issue Date
2022-05-31Author
Garcia-Medina, William
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
210 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
American Studies
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“Making Black public humanities in South Florida: Fugitive Pedagogies, Self-Making, and Memory Work” seeks to make a contribution to the field of Black public humanities by examining the history and achievements of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I argue that a project like this could serve as a preliminary litmus test by Black public humanities educators and administrators to determine the extent to which their centers are exemplary and inclusive. Although the field of public humanities has been extensively discussed in museum studies, there is little scholarship that examines how Black public humanities initiatives can be exemplary and academically useful to the field of public humanities, museum, and library studies as a whole. My study of the AARLCC through observation, participation, archival research and interviews has revealed that we have to pay attention to what these institutions are doing to maintain a public-facing and publicly-engaged humanities initiative. Their ability to create programming and events that center the general public has generated more public engagement and unity amongst its Black diverse community. Furthermore, they lead by example by creating multimodal events that use social media, virtual tours, and other platforms to achieve a higher public participation. In other words, they are a grassroots-created institution and a public-facing and public-centered one in its praxis.
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