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RESOURCES

SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

American Society for 18th Century Studies

Association of Caribbean Historians

British Society for 18th Century Studies

Caribbean Studies Association

Defoe Society

Latin American Studies Association

Society of Early Americanists

The Bigger 6 Collective

LIBRARIES AND DATABASES

Cambridge Library Collection

Digital Library of the Caribbean

Documenting the American South

John Carter Brown Library

Legacies of British Slave Ownership Database

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

TEACHING RESOURCES

**NEW** "Anti-Racist Pedagogies for 18th and 19th-Century Studies: A Teach-in,"  Organized by Dr. Kerry Sinanan and Prof. Kirsten T. Saxton, co-sponsored by the Early Caribbean Society.

 

Cole, Courtney E. “Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Higher Education: Teaching so That Black Lives Matter.” Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 36, no. 8 (January 1, 2017): 736–50. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2017-0005.

 

Damman, Catherine. “Saidiya Hartman on Insurgent Histories and the Abolitionist Imaginary.” Artforum, July 14, 2020. https://www.artforum.com/interviews/saidiya-hartman-83579.

 

Denial, Catherine. “A Pedagogy of Kindness.” Hybrid Pedagogy, August 15, 2019. https://hybridpedagogy.org/pedagogy-of-kindness/.

 

“Readings on Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist Pedagogy.” Accessed October 19, 2020. The Dickens Project, UC Santa Cruz

https://dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/virtual-universe/vdu-resources/vdu-antiracist-pedagogy.html?fbclid=IwAR3btNpZpl1f-4f1v9d1E3Gia_8FuI1BCJSisqH5p5P-QyF...

 

Ewing, Eve L. “Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People.” Adi Magazine, Fall 2019. https://adimagazine.com/articles/mariame-kaba-everything-worthwhile-is-done-with-other-people/.

 

P. Gabrielle Foreman, et al. “Writing about Slavery/Teaching About Slavery: This Might Help,” community-sourced document, https://naacpculpeper.org/resources/writing-about-slavery-this-might-help/.

 

Hartman, Saidiya. “Venus in Two Acts.” Small Axe 26 (vol. 12, no. 2) (June 2008): 1–14. https://www.artforum.com/interviews/saidiya-hartman-83579.

 

Inoue, Asao B. Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, 2019. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2019.0216.0.

 

Jackson, Lauren Michele. “What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?” Vulture, June 4, 2020. https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html.

 

Lau, Travis Chi Wing. “William Hay; Or, An Obsession.” The Rambling, Valentine 2019 (February 14, 2019). http://the-rambling.com/2019/02/14/valentines-lau/.

 

Matthew, Patricia A. “Serving Tea for a Cause | Patricia A. Matthew.” Lapham’s Quarterly (blog), February 28, 2018. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/serving-tea-cause.

 

Rentschler, Erin. “Engaging Students beyond the Traditional Classroom Part II: Pedagogies of Presence, Kindness, and Care.” The Flourishing Academic (blog), June 4, 2020. https://flourishingacademic.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/engaging-students-beyond-the-traditional-classroom-part-ii-pedagogies-of-presence-kindness-and-care/.

 

Tuck, Eve, and K. Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society  1, no. 1 (September 8, 2012): 1-40.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277992187_Decolonization_Is_Not_a_Metaphor

 

Warren-Grice, April. “Show Don’t Tell: Decolonize Your Classroom, Syllabus, Rules, and Practices.” Liberated Genius (blog), September 13, 2018. https://liberatedgenius.com/2018/decolonize-your-syllabus/.

 

Zuroski, Eugenia. “‘Where Do You Know From?’: An Exercise in Placing Ourselves Together in the Classroom.” MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, January 27, 2020. https://maifeminism.com/where-do-you-know-from-an-exercise-in-placing-ourselves-together-in-the-classroom/.

OTHER RESOURCES

Early American Matters Caucus

Omohundro Institute of Early American Culture

Repeating Islands Blog: News and Commentary on Caribbean Culture 

Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center

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