7/14/18 2018 Campus Aerial photos during summer: Central Campus, Ingalls Mall, Rackham, Burton Tower, North Quad Project Description The Crafting Democratic Futures project is a three year, grant-funded initiative housed in the U-M Center for Social Solutions. Over the course of the project’s duration, the Center for Social Solutions will partner with colleges and universities……
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Crafting Democratic Futures: Connecticut College
Project Description For centuries, Black and White Americans, as well as other indigenous groups, have been living in the shadow of our country’s problematic history of slavery, racial segregation, and inequity. In an effort to educate and prepare our children, each generation passes along this burdensome tale of oppression, violence, and social inequality. Our collective……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Emory University
Project Description The Department of African American Studies faculties’ research expertise has led to extensive commitment to and contacts in the various communities in Atlanta. They are eager to work further with Black Atlantans to uncover the stories, the metrics, and the costs of slavery, Jim Crow, and non-post-racial America for African Americans in the……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Wesleyan College
Photo courtesy of Shook Photos / Flickr Project Description Through a series of facilitated, collaborative discussions, Wesleyan College’s new Lane Center for Social and Racial Equity and our Community Partner, the Tubman Museum, are working with community members and regional leaders in the arts, business, government, and education to identify areas in need of racial……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Wofford College
Photo courtesy of Shook Photos / Flickr Project Description Wofford College and the wider Spartanburg community are collaborating to develop plans for racial reparations solutions that are both community-grounded and research-informed. The initial phase of our community-campus partnership involves extensive information-gathering, focused on historic and ongoing harms against descendants of enslaved laborers in Spartanburg, South……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Carnegie Mellon University
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen / Unsplash Project Description Under the leadership of PI, Dr. Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), Pittsburgh’s “Democratic Futures” project brings together college and university humanities scholars with community-based organizations and grassroots social activists to produce a comprehensive history of Pittsburgh’s African……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Rutgers University—Newark
Written by Mark Krasovic, associate professor of history and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Project Description The Crafting Democratic Futures project at Rutgers University-Newark is led by faculty directors Mark Krasovic (history and American Studies) and Timothy Eatman (Honors Living-Learning Community and urban education), in partnership with community fellows Richard Cammarieri (Newark Community Development Network)……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Concordia College
Image courtesty of Concordia College / concordiacollege.edu Written by James Postema, professor of English and principal investigator of the Concordia College – Moorhead, MN, Crafting Democratic Futures team Project Description At Concordia, we believe that the most distinctive contribution we can make to the Crafting Democratic Futures project is to focus on research and restorative……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Spelman College
Written by Cynthia Spence, associate professor of sociology at Spelman College, Director of the Social Justice Program, and the principal investigator for the Spelman College Crafting Democratic Futures Team Project Description The Spelman College Just Futures Project will be housed in the Social Justice Program directed by Dr. Cynthia Neal Spence, Associate Professor of Sociology……