Using these images, we connect ourselves to a recuperative, redemptive memory that enables us to construct radical identities, images of ourselves that transcend the limits of the colonizing eye.”
hooks, b. (1994). In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life. In D. Willis (Ed.), Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (pp. 43-53). New York: The New Press.
Picturing Black Study
Since the founding of the Africana Studies department at Davidson College in 2013, faculty, students, and staff have been intentional about documenting the growth and development of “Africana Studies” on campus. In 2014, the inaugural department chair Dr. Tracey Hucks worked closely with Jan Blodgett, the college archivist at the time, to collect written texts, such as meeting minutes, event programs, oral histories, and newspaper clippings of student protests, to record this momentous accomplishment in Davidson College’s history.
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note: some authors have opted to remain anonymous.
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