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February 06, 2004

Dropping knowledge

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History just came to my attention in the most roundabout way (and that's embarrassing).

Professor Kim of Professor Kim's News Notes left a comment on the post I basically lifted from Poynter Online yesterday. She mention she'd left a comment on the original essay at Poynter, so I go to check it out.

Three points were made—two analytical and this:

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915, has chosen Brown as its annual Black History Month theme. (ASALH is the organization that initiated the national commemoration of Black History.) ASALH offers a CD-ROM and book, used largely by teachers and community group leaders, that contains a variety of curricular resources. In addition, ASALH is creating a digital archive that will become a living oral history resource, allowing anyone to tell the story of their experiences with segregation. More information about ASALH is on their site: http://www.asalh.com. In the interest of full disclosure, I should add that I have been helping with this last effort.

Well.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson himself. That's why it was embarrassing to find out it still exists this way…simply put, I should have know.

And their 89th annual convention will be held, September 28 - October 3, 2004 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That's close enough to NYC that I could go, and I'm seriously considering it because one of the presenters is Dr. Lerone Bennett, the author of "The Shaping of Black America," chapter three of which I copyright infringed to support the discussion in "Where We Stand." The man is literally one of my heroes, author of a book that deeply informs my views on the development of race and race relations in the USofA (the closest any other single author came to that impact on me was Dr. Harold Cruse, particularly with "Plural but Equal"). I would LOVE to meet him, and maybe get official permission to have that chapter over there.

In fact, I'd kinda like to have the whole book available online. But that would be pushing it, I'm sure.

Anyway, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History is added to the "Dropping Knowledge" section of the sidebar.

Posted by P6 at February 6, 2004 05:47 AM
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