What is it about?
This article details the impact of digital humanities and community engagement practice on work with Eatonville, Florida, one of the oldest historically black communities in the United States. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these activities have turned toward generative digital practices to document, share, and preserve the scholarly and community knowledge associated with the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Humanities. This change reflects Edward L. Ayers’s call for a more robust and inclusively engaged scholarship that speaks to the need to identify the deeply rooted cultural questions traditional narratives all too easily overlook.
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Why is it important?
The project put forth a framework called Generative Digital Reciprocity. This praxis relies on a three-pronged strategy of public scholarship, digital pedagogy, and open educational resource curation designed to engage the public and shape scholarly narratives in new ways. The project spotlights a commitment to combine and amplify pedagogy and digital methodologies in order to create unique and sustainable archival materials for future research.
Perspectives
This publication reveals the long-term impact of public scholarship grounded in community-centric work leveraging digital humanities tools for archival justice.
Dr Julian C Chambliss
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: A Generative Praxis, Scholarly Editing, April 2022, The Association for Documentary Editing, Inc.,
DOI: 10.55520/ewtf3jh1.
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