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- Title
Call My Name: Using Biographical Storytelling to Reconceptualize the History of African Americans at Clemson University.
- Authors
Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
- Abstract
Biographical storytelling can be an effective means for higher education institutions like Clemson University, which was built by a predominately African American convict workforce on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation, to reclaim complicated public narratives that are informed by the history of slavery and its legacies enacted in Jim Crow policies and practices. Thomas examines how biographic mediation enables the extraction of details from historical records that were created to commodify or criminalize people of African descent who are inextricably intertwined with institutional histories for the creation of life histories. The author asserts that biographic accountability can lead to the development of a multifaceted approach to acknowledging and commemorating Black labor as a critical component of the building and sustaining of higher education institutions, while offering descendants the documentation they need to make a case for redress and reparations.
- Subjects
AFRICAN American history; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); CLEMSON University; HISTORY of slavery; HISTORICAL source material; EMPLOYMENT of Black people; REPARATIONS for historical injustices; REPARATIONS to African Americans
- Publication
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p624
- ISSN
0162-4962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bio.2019.0063