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White Violence, Black Resistance gathers a number of projects in a federated model. Current work includes the following projects:
Prairie View Women's Oral History Project
The Prairie View Women's Oral History Project is designed to collect, preserve, curate and display the oral histories of women who have had a thirty (30) year or longer relationship to Prairie View A&M University. The students, faculty and staff who participate in the project create a publicly accessible digital archive of the lives of women who have shaped and been shaped by humanities education. The project demonstrates through collected narratives the way one HBCU has engaged in public pedagogy through narrative to positively impact the image and imaginative of who is an American citizen. The project is a collaboration between faculty in the Communication Studies program, Special Collections and Archives, and GIS mapping faculty. Students engaged in courses learn transcription, digitalization, video and audio production, digital preservation of archive photography, rhetorical analysis and GIS mapping along with a number of other research skills needed for digital humanists.
The Alex Haley Malcom X project recovers an unknown essay by Haley titled "The Malcolm X I Knew," published in the pulp men's magazine Saga in 1965, and 72 notecards used by Haley during his production of The Autobiography. In addition to a lengthy introduction to the materials, all documents are transcribed, annotated and include high quality images. The essay and notecards were digitized in partnerships with undergraduates and graduate classes at Texas A&M University which allowed students to learn to transcribe, markup, digitize, and annotated literary materials. This model of partnership allows students to understand the ways in which canons are constructed and to obtain hands on experience with digital humanities.
The Millican "Riot" project examines a local history event, the Millican Race Riot of 1868, what we believe to be the largest “race riot” in Texas. The conflict occurred in Millican, Texas, a town located 15 miles from Texas A&M University campus.Details remain unclear, but we believe that during the first KKK rally in Millican, a small town on the Houston and Central Texas Railroad, armed freedmen fired on the rally, driving the Klan out of town. After the rally, George Brooks, a local preacher and Union League organizer, began a black militia. Several confrontations occurred including a march on the larger county seat of Bryan by a large group of armed blacks, which ended in an armed assault on the local black community and deaths of numerous black women, children, and men. The event was covered by newspapers from France to Panama, Edinburgh to San Francisco.
The Omeka archive was developed by undergraduate students and seeks to chronicle newspaper reports, oral histories, geospatial information, census records, historical documents and other such materials that illuminate the so called riot.
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