
Seminar Leader:
Amy Hillier Preface:
Starting with a close read of The Philadelphia Negro, this seminar critically examined the research and thinking of the great scholar and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois as a way of understanding racism and the “color line” at the turn of the 20th Century. We focused on primary source documents and digital humanities methods, including oral history and geographic information systems (GIS) for mapping and spatial analysis, as ways to engage students of all ages in understanding the contemporary challenges we face relating to race and racism through an historical lens. The seminar explored the possibilities and limitations of systematic empirical data collection and analysis as a means of affecting social change, including the legacies of the settlement house and social survey movements and scientific racism.
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2023
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Danina Garcia |
Keywords: Medicine, Medical History, Henrietta Lacks, Tuberculosis, Nursing History, Philadelphia, African American History |
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Jeannette Moon |
Keywords: maps, mapping, Du Bois, Home, Hansberry, Genre Analysis, survey, storytelling, Wayward Lives, Raisin in the Sun, Seventh Ward |
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Margo A. Pinckney |
Keywords: race relations, data collection |
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Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau |
Keywords: The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois, Placemaking, Social Epidemiology, 7th Ward, Data visualization, Data Portraits, Accordion Books |
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Tyriese James Holloway |
Keywords: Heterogeneity, space, Protagonism, Place, activism |
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Shaquita Smith |
Keywords: marginalized groups, Monuments, murals, epistemic injustice, historically marginalized voices, The Philadelphia Negro, The Old Seventh Ward, Sociology, W.E.B. Du Bois, using sociology to study history, black women |
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Keeler Park |
Keywords: map reading, Equity, History, Geography, discussion, Sociology, world history, society, power, race, primary source, social studies, Slavery, document-based questions, DBQ, annotation, analysis, criticality, Critical Race Theory |
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Robbie Marsden |
Keywords: Du Bois, Sociology, Philadelphia Negro, Seventh Ward |
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Ryann Rouse |
Keywords: informational text analysis, historical fiction, high school ELA, The Philadelphia Negro, summarization, W.E.B. DuBois, primary sources, Philadelphia, social science, Seventh Ward, cite evidence, Compare and contrast, author’s purpose |
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Katherine Cohen Volin |
Keywords: The Philadelphia Negro, The House on Mango Street, W.E.B. Du Bois, 7th Ward |
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