black archive/
Black As archive
"The KnowleDge of Myself makes me a poor righteous teacher!"
We center our work on Digital Blackness by diving into a variety of Black digital archives. Given the culture’s respect for being able “to dig in the crates” for music at a party and the political need to recover histories that have been deliberately kept from Black peoples, it seems most appropriate that we look at the ways Black digital culture has created an apparatus that gives Black folx their histories back. This module also introduces the ways that students are building the content of this course/website together.
To kick it all the way back to 1980, here are the words of Lakeside: “Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage”... and then again in 1994 with Coolio: “Come on, y'all, let's take a ride, don't you say shit, just get inside” (all that’s missing for us are the wild outfits... or maybe not given what some of us be lookin like). |
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