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Racial Realism or Foolish Optimism: An African American Muslim Woman in the Field
(Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)
This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart
(Lexington Books, 2016-03-11)
Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003) combine Africa, Islam and Muslims to show positive and negative sides of what would have happened if whites were the enslaved and blacks were the slave ...
Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family's Saga
(New York University Press, 2016-03)
On August 29, 2005 the world witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as it swept through New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi; a natural disaster that will forever be linked to the images of ...
Are We Having Fun Yet
(Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, 2016-05-27)
This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to ...
A Catalyst for Social Activism: The Digital Black Bibliography Project
(Texas Digital Libraries, 2016-05-26)
This ppt presentation details a collaborative proof of concept project called Digital Black Bibliography (DiBB) that sought to provide scholars with the tools to compile, preserve, manipulate, and interpret Africana cultural ...