Call My Name: Using Biographical Storytelling to Reconceptualize the History of African Americans at Clemson University

Thomas, Rhondda Robinson

doi:10.1353/bio.2019.0063

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For many of these universities, their histories are tied to the labor of enslaved African Americans. At Clemson University, the Call My Name project led by Rhondda Thomas has publicly focused on how slavery, colonialism, and institutionalized racism shaped the university in the past and the present (Thomas, 2019). Other scholarly projects have also critiqued this history, centering Clemson University and the surrounding area as a specific geographical location around which narratives of racism, power, and institutional history propagate (O'Brien et al, 2018).…”

Section: Participatory Counternarrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building participatory counternarratives: Pedagogical interventions through digital placemaking

Frith

Richter

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Places are filled with stories, with histories that shape how people understand the nature of a place. Places are unique sets of trajectories – each with a story – coming into contact. However, just as much as places are defined by their histories, they are also shaped by the histories that are forgotten, or far too often, actively suppressed through dominant narratives. After all, dominant media of spatial, public memory – for example, plaques and public monuments – often reproduce dominant narratives of a place, narratives created by the powerful. This project examines how digital placemaking can be deployed through locative technologies to push back on dominant spatial narratives and make places more polyvocal in consequential ways. In particular, through a project at Clemson University, we examine how locative storytelling applications can help students intervene in traditional narratives of place to engage with social justice and alternative histories.

show abstract

Section: Participatory Counternarrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%