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This morning I'm attending "Using Digital Humanities to Tell Stories" @AsalhConvention. Panelists include @cheylonkwoods @kenvi_phillips, @drpezster and @bookworme7787. #asalh2020 #libraries #archives #librarytwitter
Haykal: DH is an intesection of humanities and arts disciplines and technology. Involves examining how digital tools can be applied to humanities and how these subjects can influence knowledge of computing (Kirschenbaum 2010). DH brings the academy to the community.
Haykal: Digital exhibits are an example of DH at work. Mimic a physical exhibit but can be broader, using lots of media. Convey a particular narrative. You are content curator and digital manager. Some tools include Omeka, CurateScape, or website builder (Wix, WordPress, etc.)
First up at @AsalhConvention for me is: "Must they All Fall Down?" Perspectives on the Removal of Monuments and Narratives of Historical Figures. Panelists include @lkimblejr @HilaryGreen77 @SassyProf @ScottSandage #asalh2020
Prof. Kimble is up first: What to do with Civil War or slaveholder monuments, not just in the US but globally? How do we use these monuments in public history? #asalh2020
Dr. Green @HilaryGreen77: From the beginning, African Americans rejected these monuments. White perspectives have framed historical memory, these monuments among them. Black people protested by any means possible. They voiced opposition in churches, schools, etc.
Excited to hear @keneshiagrant discuss her book The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century up next @AsalhConvention! Other panelists include @profmtp, @dinambar, and @profblmkelley. #ASALH2020
First, Natanya Duncan reads an announcement from
@asalh Pres. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and we take 30 seconds of silence in her honor. #RIPRBG #ASALH2020
@asalh Pres. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and we take 30 seconds of silence in her honor. #RIPRBG #ASALH2020
Melanye Price is serving as moderator. This is a good time for us to reflect on why we feel loyalty to the Democratic Party. #ASALH2020
Next up is "Visibly Inscribed in the Annals of History: A Tribute to Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn" with Toya Corbett, John H. Bracey, Jr., Bettye Collier-Thomas, Sharon Harley, and Robert L. Harris, Jr. #asalh2020
Natanya Duncan: Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn was a role model, friend, and teacher for many, including the panelists today. She was a pioneer in our field and paved the way for us to do the work we do. #ASALH2020
Terborg-Penn's groundbreaking book was "African American Women and the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920" [BUY IT]. #ASALH2020
Attending "Gendered Violence, the Carceral System, and African American Women's Advocacy for Racial and Gender Justice" next @AsalhConvention. Panelists include Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Alison Marie Parker, @YohuruWilliams, and @MichelleYGordon. #asalh2020
Wallace-Sanders introduces "the best panel of the day". Alison Parker will be up first discussing Mary Church Terrell. #asalh2020
Parker: Mary Church Terrell was first pres of NACW, voting rights advocate, feminist, used cross-class efforts to achieve equality by challenging sexist and racist stereotypes. Defended honor of Black women from ideas of impurity. #asalh2020
First up for me @AsalhConvention today is "Bold Belonging: Black Women's Dynamic Theories of Citizenship" bc I am always ready to hear @ProfKori speak! Also on the panel are the amazing Natanya Duncan and @EbonRebel. @harris_duchess will be moderating. What a lineup! #asalh2020
.@ProfKori discusses the social contract and how Black people cannot trust in that social contract. Case studies in Black women's experiences will illuminate this. How do Black women claim a country and system that wasn't designed for them and regularly oppresses them? #asalh2020
.@EbonRebel: Black women understand the violence inherent in the capitalist system. Despite this, they still try to creatively stake out a place in the system. In part to make it more equitable but also to critique it even during their participation in it. #asalh2020
I'm excited for this one today! #asalh2020
Now a panel will be discussing ONE PERSON, NO VOTE by @ProfCAnderson. @LeahRigueur introduces Frederick C. Harris to begin. #asalh2020
Harris: This is an important book this election year. It covers tactics that prevent Black and other marginalized people from voting freely. Some new devices include voter ID laws, purging voter rolls, gerrymandering, spread of misinformation. All tactics lower voter turnout.
So I feel it's important that I am clear about my live-tweeting. Most often in a new tweet of a thread, I will put the speaker's name first followed by a colon. That means that person is speaking and so I may use "we" or "our". #ASALH2020
When I do this, I am not a part of the "we" or "our" as a white woman. I do this bc it makes tweeting easier and because, I feel, it is more true to the speaker's message. #asalh2020
Also, I am mostly summarizing, unless I use quotation marks. If you see quotation marks, those are exact quotes from the speaker. I will always mark my own thoughts or notes with brackets or by including "Personal note" or similar. That doesn't happen often. Thanks. #asalh2020
I will be tweeting this session next - looking forward to this one for weeks. Alabama is in the (virtual) house! #asalh2020 @ASALH @AsalhConvention
.@ProfJeffries is moderating this session with Angela Y Davis, @TaranaBurke, Ruby Sales, Sonia Sanchez, @DeJuanaT. "From the Front Porch: What Alabama Teaches the World" is starting now. #ASALH2020
Jeffries: The in-person conference would've been held in Montgomery, AL. The front porch is a space for convening, dialoging, coming together. It's a private and public place. Where organizers and children and farmers and neighbors all planned and organized. #ASALH2020
Next session I'll be tweeting: "Lifting as We Climb": Bridging the Political and Technological Information Gap for African American Women. On the panel: Kenisha Thomas,
and from Florida A&M, Jessica Washington, Sierra Eklund, and Imani Hutchinson. #ASALH2020
and from Florida A&M, Jessica Washington, Sierra Eklund, and Imani Hutchinson. #ASALH2020
Kenisha Thomas is also from FAMU. All of from the Social Work Dept. First is a video about the Black women's clubb movement. The motto was "Lifting as we climb." Humanitarian, education, business, racial and gender rights and issues were all focused on. #ASALH2020
Black women's clubs made and are making huge impacts in Black women's lives. They were the first to fight for freedom and find unity in spite of struggle. #ASALH2020
The next #asalh2020 session I'll be tweeting is one close to my heart: "We Were There: Increasing Access to Black Women's Suffrage Histories" will include Shanee Y. Murain (@dpla), Sarah Tanner (Atlanta Univ Library), and Dana Chandler (Tuskegee Univ Archives).
Here we go! Aaisha Haykal from the College of Charleston is moderating. First up is Shanee Yvette Murrain from DPLA. #libraries #archives #critlib #librarylife #librarytwitter #asalh2020
Murrain: Describing work of @dpla - check out their website #ASALH2020
Tonight at #asalh2020, filmmaker @LokiMulholland will be joined by Civil Rights veteran JoAnne Bland and @ProfCAnderson to talk voter suppression. ICYMI, you can read my recent interview with Mrs. Bland @MsMagazine here:
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About to watch @LokiMulholland 's After Selma that features JoAnne Bland and @ProfCAnderson. I thought Mrs. Bland would be here but I don't see her just yet. More later. #ASALH2020
Amazing film! Everyone should watch. We're now hearing from @LokiMulholland the filmmaker.
Mulholland: Voter suppression is about maintaining white supremacy. A fair and equal system of voting hasn't been created. #asalh2020
Mulholland: Voter suppression is about maintaining white supremacy. A fair and equal system of voting hasn't been created. #asalh2020
Albright: When trying to get people involved, don't just consider them lazy or uninformed if they express lack of interest in voting. Acknowledge their fatigue, affirm their frustration. Then build the bridge, that's the tricky part. #asalh2020
Anderson: Too easy to consider people lazy or uninterested. We must look deeper to bureaucratic violence and barriers to voting and engaging. This is trying to participate in a system and getting blocked every step of the way. It's not that people just don't care. #asalh2020
What a great session! Please support the panelists: @BlackVotersMtr @RepTerriSewell @Dr_JZ @ProfCAnderson @harris_duchess @cliff_notes
Follow them, buy their books, share their work!
#asalh2020 @ASALH @AsalhConvention #citeblackwomen #blackvotersmatter
Follow them, buy their books, share their work!
#asalh2020 @ASALH @AsalhConvention #citeblackwomen #blackvotersmatter
Audience question: What do we do after the election? HOw do we get our elected officials to do what we sent them there for? #asalh2020
Anderson: Must hold elected officials accountable. Contact them regularly. Explain there will be consequences if they let us down. We can't forget after election day. Policy making happens after the election, so we need to be engaged. #asalh2020
Anderson: Being engaged with elected officials changes the ethos of governance. Officials must understand that the policy must come from the people not lobbying groups, etc. By doing so, we are "fighting forward". #asalh2020
Duchess Harris asks: How can we participate in election day in the face of COVID?
Albright: Black Voters Matter is working on this. See their Twitter and website to get involved @BlackVotersMtr. They are encouraging people to get ballot by mail but take it in by hand. #asalh2020
Albright: Black Voters Matter is working on this. See their Twitter and website to get involved @BlackVotersMtr. They are encouraging people to get ballot by mail but take it in by hand. #asalh2020
Albright: If you can early vote in person, do that. Black Voters Matters are having the Blackest Bus in America and caravans and videos to assist and encourage people to vote. Get to the polls, just do so safely. #asalh2020
Dr. JZ: Instruct how to wear a mask and why so that people feel comfortable working/going to the polls.
Anderson: Be sure to check your voter registration and polling place in advance as well. Gives you time to fix anything you need to. #asalh2020
Anderson: Be sure to check your voter registration and polling place in advance as well. Gives you time to fix anything you need to. #asalh2020
Duchess Harris @harris_duchess asks of the panelists: Why didn't Obama save us?? #asalh2020
Albright: Obama was the US president but racism is the original US sin. Some will say that when you attack racism, you attack the US. Obama was the leader of a racist system. Unreasonable to think that in a 8yr period he could change the entire structure of the US. #asalh2020
Albright: He can make improvements but can't change the entire system in that period of time. We can be critical and say he should've gone further or done something differently on different issues. But it's about entire systems. #asalh2020
Carol Anderson discusses Black voting, mail-in voting, and "voter fraud". Tells Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder story (my note: Google it). The power of the vote is the power of policy. It is transformative. #asalh2020
Dr. JZ: The system as-is works and can work when we vote for people who are responsive to our needs. But what happens when we try to participate in the system and it systematically tells you don't matter? #asalh2020
Dr JZ: Malcolm X continued to ask this question. It's not just about being invited to dinner. Just bc you're invited, doesn't mean you can dine (HT Malcolm X). Does the current system really work for Black people? What if I can't take it another day? #asalh2020
Duchess Harris: US people were tired before COVID and before this election year. What is our strategy?
Albright: People respond to different issues and messaging. Center on issues but change that messaging to suit the group.
Sewell: And different messengers! #asalh2020
Albright: People respond to different issues and messaging. Center on issues but change that messaging to suit the group.
Sewell: And different messengers! #asalh2020
Albright: We don't have to reach everyone but if everyone we reach will reach others, then we will have done our job.
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Sewell: The strategy is to vote.
VOTE: Volunteer. Organize. Turn out. Elect.
If you aren't at the table, do as Shirley Chisholm says, bring a folding chair and scoot yourself in there. #asalh2020
VOTE: Volunteer. Organize. Turn out. Elect.
If you aren't at the table, do as Shirley Chisholm says, bring a folding chair and scoot yourself in there. #asalh2020
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, pres of @ASALH, asks: the long struggle of Black women is clear and bright to light in this amazing panel, but what is the message to Black men in this moment? #asalh2020
Dr. JZ: Methods shouldn't change for men or women. Black women might be the canary in the mine that are signaling to society that things are wrong, experiencing multiple oppressions and seeing the oppression of others. But both men and women must do the work. #asalh2020
Anderson: How to get people involved? Engagement is about what people want for their lives. I want clean water. I want good schools. I want to have a job and be paid what I'm worth. Then this can shift into policy discussions. #asalh2020
Question posed about @KamalaHarris and the significance of her candidacy. Sewell: This moment culminates in having a timely selection of a Black woman "who is beyond ready to take over the presidency." Calls Harris "brilliant." #asalh2020
.@RepTerriSewell on @KamalaHarris: "This wasn't given to Black women. We earned this."
Sewell had read about Shirley Chisholm as a kid but "...ain't nothing like being able to touch it, feel it, see it, to know you can achieve it."
Sewell had read about Shirley Chisholm as a kid but "...ain't nothing like being able to touch it, feel it, see it, to know you can achieve it."
Sewell: We must get @KamalaHarris elected and then see what she can bring to the table in terms of policymaking that will effect Black communities. #asalh2020
.@Dr_JZ is up now. Acknowledges she is surrounded by amazing people. Shines light on the challenges to Black women being/feeling safe. What will help Black women be successful and safe? The ballot or the bullet or both or none at all? #asalh2020
Dr. JZ: Really an issue of human rights. How are human rights recognized in the US? Black people are questioning what happiness looks like in this current moment. Listen to Malcolm X's speech: voting blocs are important bc they decide who goes to DC. #asalh2020
Dr. JZ: Malcolm X could've given that speech in 2020. Black people are fed up. How can we hold the US accountable for human rights? Sick of Americanisms - what does this entail? #asalh2020
Next up at #asalh2020 @AsalhConvention is a plenary featuring @MsLaToshaBrown @ProfCAnderson @cliff_notes @RepTerriSewell @Dr_JZ "The Ballot is Our Bullet: The Power of the African American Vote"
#citeblackwomen @BlackVotersMtr
#citeblackwomen @BlackVotersMtr
.@harris_duchess is also here moderating. @RepTerriSewell starts off: acknowledges centennial of 19th Amendment despite all women not being included. Black women's participation threatened some. #asalh2020
Rep. Sewell: We must know our history. For Black women, suffrage history is one of great pain and great progress. Sewell is Alabama's first Black congresswoman. Represents Selma. Honors Barbara Jordan and Sojourner Truth. #asalh2020
Super excited to attend this @AsalhConvention roundtable for @marthasjones_ new book VANGUARD. Also on the panel: @SoulistaPhD @ProfessorCrunk @Drsharonharley. Will try to live tweet. #ASALH2020 #citeblackwomen
And be sure to check out @marthasjones_ books and 39 others on my latest Reads for the Rest of Us list @MsMagazine msmagazine.com/2020/09/02/sep…
.@ProfessorCrunk is up first: Jones gives African American women's history through the fight to vote. Doesn't frame it solely through white women's framework. Voting is but one avenue that they demand to be heard. #asalh2020
