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A courageous step to acknowledge the past and the need to address it in the present. A hallmark of history. https://lnkd.in/gU_V9imc

Know Thyself

In honor of Black History Month, I wrote this article (be sure to read both pages)! I would love to hear your thoughts on the topic!

🎞️Notable Black Texans In the Archives🎞️ John Mason Brewer 1896–1975 Scholar and folklorist John Mason Brewer was born in Goliad. Over his fifty-year career, Brewer almost single-handedly preserved the African American folklore of his home state. When Brewer graduated from Wiley College in 1917, he worked as a teacher and wrote poetry. But he also collected the folk tales he heard at schools and churches, in general stores and barbershops—the places of everyday life for Black Texans. While teaching in Austin in the 1930s, Brewer shared some of his tales with folklorist J. Frank Dobie. Impressed, Dobie arranged for their publication under the title Juneteenth. Many more books followed, filled with folk tales that Brewer learned firsthand from people formerly enslaved in Texas and their descendants. Recorded in the dialect of their tellers, the stories revolve around preachers and overseers, husbands and wives, reflecting the hardship and humor of the "coming-up times" after slavery. Brewer became the first African American member of the Texas Folklore Society and the Texas Institute of Letters. His books serve as a timeless record of Texas storytelling and powerful proof of what he called "folklore as a living force." Source: Humanities Texas Our vast collection of Black Culture includes this 1980 documentary chronciles Brewer's life and legacy. https://loom.ly/ZW66ksA #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #archives #texas #texas #archives #film #digitization #preservation #nonprofit

Reading and Resistance: On Black History Month and the Role of Black Literature https://lnkd.in/gNtrS8fX

Discover the compelling work of Dr Siseko Kumalo, Ph.D. a distinguished political theorist whose work delves into Blackness and Indigeneity in South Africa. He explores the vision of former President Thabo Mbeki in his article "The Black Archive: Building National Unity."   Dive into: •Former President Thabo Mbeki's inspiring vision of inclusive identity. •The rich intellectual traditions of Black/Indigenous scholars. •How the Black Archive project is addressing historical erasure and promoting unity. •Strategies for reconciling past traumas with a united future. A must-read for anyone passionate about national unity and historical reconciliation! full article: https://lnkd.in/d3tHxnt6

The “longue durée” is an approach to history that transcends individual events. In this video, I unpack Fernand Braudel’s insights on how history unfolds across three layers of time: an event-based, a social, and the deep, slow-moving “longue durée”. Learn how our choices are influenced by long-term structures and how this interplay enriches our understanding of both past and present. From the symbolism of the heart to the formation of collective identities, this video offers a fresh perspective on the forces that shape our world. 

Laurent-Perrault, E. (2020). Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the quintessential maroon: toward an African diasporic epistemology. This essay engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. It traces Valdés’s main contributions and notes that her work invites readers to expand their views of Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity and his complex personality, as well as his relentless but gentle commitment to advancing black liberation. Following Saidiya Hartman’s strategy of “critical fabulation” to highlight previously silenced Afro-Epistemes, the author dwells on Schomburg’s childhood, life commitment, and legacies. Part of the essay’s purpose is to sketch the transnational community of formerly enslaved and free men and women from whom Schomburg inherited what the author calls his Maroon political consciousness. The essay also emphasizes how Valdés invites African diaspora scholars, activists, educators, artists, and so on to reflect on and trouble preconceived ideas about Maroon subjectivity, marron age, and Africa. It concludes by imagining ways Schomburg would engage our present. Issue Section: Book Discussion: Vanessa K. Valdés, Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Maroon, marron age, black dignity, Afro-epistemes, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Latin American, black liberation

In order to subscribe to a better future, we CAN NOT cancel the past. Black History IS American History. #blackhistorymonth #blackhistorymonth2024 #celebrateblackhistory #celebrateblackexcellence #blackhistorymatters #cancelculture #historymatters #historylessons #blackhistoryisamericanhistory