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HON300VIDEO.mp4HON 300 HBCU video
In my HON 300 Class (Race, Membership, and Eugenics), my group and I did a deep dive into the history and the future of HBCUs. In our video, we focused on NC A&T, and interviewed students to find out more about their opinions on current social events such as the narratives around DEI. Making this video and conducting the interviews was enlightening and exposed me to different perspectives on contemporary issues.
HON 300 HBCU Print Piece
As part of our HBCU project in HON 300, we created a 28-page print piece highlighting more about the past, present, and future of HBCUs. We focused on how HBCUs can sometimes be dismissed when compared to other four-year institutions. In reality, they have profound histories and remarkable networks of alumni. As a group, we collectively viewed this as an enriching supplement to our video, and examining the history of HBCUs taught us all a lot of information that we would not have otherwise known.
AFS 240 - Ethiopia Final Paper
My Freshman year, I took AFS 240 (African Civilization). Throughout the course of the semester, I learned all about the history of the African continent and people and realized just how much of their history has gone untold in the United States.
To culminate my time in the class, I wrote a 3,600-word paper on the history of Ethiopia and how much of its history has been rewritten or ignored. The essay rejects the Eurocentric claims that Africa was "The Dark Continent' and uncivilized and discussed how the advancements made by African societies deserve more recognition today. Researching for and writing this paper taught me so much about a subject with which I was mostly unfamiliar prior to coming to NC State, and I developed a nuanced understanding of African civilization and Eurocentric historical bias through intensive primary source research.
HON 300 Slideshow
In my Race, Membership, and Eugenics class, I did another project focusing on a specific case of eugenics in the United States. In our presentation, my partner and I examined the history of eugenics in the State of Virginia, and how the school of thought spread throughout certain areas of the country. We discussed in-depth the sterilization of the Mallory women, and how they were treated as subhumans. Their rights were stripped on a pseudoscientific basis, with no evidence to justify it. Learning about this case opened my eyes to a world of atrocities that have been swept under the rug as recently as the past century.
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