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Posted on January 31, 2025 at: 8:23 pm
The UDARI Black Histories at UD Committee was recently featured in a UDAILY article highlighting the committee’s Black Histories at UD StoryMap. The StoryMap connects previously under-studied histories, now coming to light thanks to ongoing work by UDARI researchers and community partners, to specific sites on UD’s Newark campus and the city of Newark. A dynamic resource to which future researchers can add, the StoryMap can continue to accrue layers of history and be updated with new findings. It is the work of past UDARI interns Tara Lennon and Elisa Davila, with the assistance of members of UDARI’s Campus Tours Committee, Legacies of Enslavement and Dispossession at UD committee, UDARI advisor Alison Parker, and UD Library Digital Scholarship Librarian
Kayla Abner.
This digital project is a first step in realigning campus histories to honor important Black stories
while acknowledging the ways that the University of Delaware has benefitted historically from unfreedom and perpetuated racism. The Campus Tours committee continues to work toward
commemorating Black histories at the University of Delaware more widely and in more permanent and visible ways.
Click here to view the article.
Posted on October 27, 2024 at: 7:02 pm
On October 10, the University of Delaware hosted “Indigenous Delaware, Nanticoke Land Stewardship and Language Revitalization,” a public event spotlighting Indigenous initiatives. Nanticoke members Courtney Streett and Karelle Hall shared their work on land stewardship and language preservation. Hosted by the UD Anti-Racism Initiative’s American Indian and Indigenous Relations Committee and the Delaware Environmental Institute, the event invited attendees to explore connections between people, language, and Delaware’s ecosystems. Please see the full article linked here: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/october/indigenous-delaware/
Posted on May 12, 2023 at: 11:20 am
UDARI Legacies of Slavery and Dispossession committee member Taylor Brookins recently spoke with Delaware Public Media last week about some of the UDARI research on enslavement and dispossession. Please see link and description below.
“History Matters: University of Delaware Research Project Examines UD’s History with Slavery,” The Green (Delaware Public Media, May 12, 2023), https://www.delawarepublic.org/show/the-green/2023-05-12/history-matters-university-of-delaware-research-project-examines-uds-history-with-slavery-and-dispossession
“A group of University of Delaware faculty and students are working on a research project covering UD’s historical relationship to slavery, unfree labor, land dispossession, and racism.In courses and independent studies, the student-led “Legacies of Slavery and Dispossession” project delves into the involvement of past university leaders with forms of unfree labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the 20th-century effects of UD’s growth on Newark’s Black community.In this edition of History Matters, Delaware Public Media’s Joe Irizarry talks with UD assistant history professor Dael Norwood and National Park Service historian and UD Ph.D. student Taylor Brookins to learn more about the project and its findings.”
Posted on July 8, 2022 at: 8:10 am
Dear friends and colleagues:
I am pleased to announce that the new, public-facing website for the UDARI Legacies of Dispossession and Enslavement at UD committee is now live! https://sites.udel.edu/udari-legacies/
The site’s current feature is a suite of original blog posts authored by students from HIST 460/660: Race and Inequality in Delaware (Fall 2021). Building on the students’ Scholar in the Library presentation last December, these deeper dives include investigations into:
…and much, much more!
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Posted on March 6, 2022 at: 9:42 am
Dear UDARI supporters.
Applications are now open for undergraduate and graduate students for UDARI’s Summer Scholars Program.
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