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Community Now is a Public Humanities project that aims to build a community for those both inside and outside of academia in order to provide tools and support for navigating academic culture. This project also aims to highlight the work being done to expand black intellectual thought.
Community Now is a Public Humanities project that aims to build a community for those both inside and outside of academia in order to provide tools and support for navigating academic culture. This project also aims to highlight the work being done to expand black intellectual thought.
We kindly ask that you respect the words and works of the resources gathered in this project and give proper credit to the sources.
We kindly ask that you respect the words and works of the resources gathered in this project and give proper credit to the sources.
Please keep in mind that this project remains a work in progress. Work is still being done to add more sources and expand on the work of black and brown scholars.
Please keep in mind that this project remains a work in progress. Work is still being done to add more sources and expand on the work of black and brown scholars.
We recognize that the current resources are in English and centered on the United States. Efforts are being made to include resources that focus on Caribbean and African geographies.
We recognize that the current resources are in English and centered on the United States. Efforts are being made to include resources that focus on Caribbean and African geographies.
Conversations with Scholars
Conversations with Scholars
These conversations seeks to inform seeks to inform those inside and outside of academia of the challenges and rewards marginalized bodied face in the pursuit of research.
Conversation with Scholars takes its inspiration from Angela Davis’ Freedom is a Constant Struggle and Black feminist sociologist Jacqui Alexander’s “Learn your sisters’ stories." Both note the importance of circulating stories as a way of keeping memory alive and how often, as Davis states “those other stories are actually our own stories." Often, we highlight the research that is being done on black bodies without heeding much attention to the challenges those black bodies encounter in the course of the research itself. This project seeks to fill that gap by following an affect of care within higher education and creating community for people often marginalized by the hierarchies within research institutions. Finally, it will help those who are considering going to graduate school know more about the process.
This project is sponsored by the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the Department of English, the University of Maryland Libraries, the University of Maryland Graduate School's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the University of Maryland Division of Research.
This project is sponsored by the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the Department of English, the University of Maryland Libraries, the University of Maryland Graduate School's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the University of Maryland Division of Research.
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