Let My People Know
Project by: Isabel Estrada & Stefano Morello
Let My People Know is a digital edition of a biography of Wilfred Mendelson, one of thirteen City College of New York students, faculty, and staff volunteers who died fighting in support of Spain’s democracy during the Spanish civil war. The Manifold project represents the potential of collaborative publishing to break away from traditional learning materials in that it centers a little-studied text and brings diverse student voices into the material itself through collaborative annotation. The work of the Spring 2022 course can now be used and added to by future cohorts of students demonstrating the potential of collaborative publishing to make archival materials interactive and leveraged in the classroom to activate student knowledge and enrich the library of OER materials
Black Diasporic Visions: (De) Constructing Modes of Power
Project by: Javiela EvangelistaCarla SheddJosh AdlerRosa AngelaDarializa Avila ChevalierBrittany BrathwaiteJ. Michell BritoO.D. EnobaborRuben MinaJanelle PoeKayla ReeceAshleigh WashingtonCrystal Welch-Scott
Contributor: Wendy Barrales
The Black Diasporic Visions project brings together course materials and includes reflections and resources created and curated by students exploring, as its description puts it, myriad “pathways for liberation formed by African people and people of African descent inside and outside of oppressive structures of power, as well as the development of alternative visions and spaces.” Future students can contribute to the project by collaboratively annotating the materials on Manifold. Black Diasporic Visions evinces the ways collaborative publishing affords activities that impart transferable digital humanities skills at the same time as they produce interactive, remixable, and reusable course materials that decenter white perspectives and approaches.
My Slipper Floated Away: New American Memoirs
Editor: Justine Hope Blau
Contributors: Justine Hope BlauJenifer RodriguezAbdul SyedJoel AlvaradoGertrude KobbahGriffith NunezDanny CaceresSteven NginAlfiya M.Alibamba SillahNabeelah VanRobyn RansomeSocheath SurJ. G.A. K. N.Nicole de la CruzDelilah Ortiz HassarathEstefania ValenciaA. P.Omar FajardoCavrille O’GarroRaquel TorresMonroe AndersonEric Agyenim-BoatengAmanda LopezShanique Bowden
My Slipper Floated Away is an anthology of essays written by students at Lehman College in the Bronx. The writers are immigrants or the children of immigrants and/or POC. They grew up hearing gunshots and sirens at night, played fire escape basketball and still celebrate Thanksgiving by dancing. The stories in the project, published on Manifold, reveal the writers’ intense longing to belong in America and their passion to succeed in this country, while dealing with myriad challenges. They bear witness, in riveting, artful narratives that will be revelatory to Americans who fear and resent immigrants or people of color.
Linguistic Landscapes: Unpacking Language Hierarchies
Project by: Inés Vano Garcia, Ryan Seslow, & Students of ELL 101
Linguistic Landscapes is a collection of oral histories and public-facing art projects developed in a first year community college Linguistics course. It explores the language ecologies of Queens, a borough that is thought to be home to more than 800 languages. This place-based course project, built on the CUNY Academic Commons WordPress platform, illustrates how DH methodologies such as digital ethnographies can be applied to create publications that diversify the voices in OER publishing.
The COVID-19 Oral History Project
Project by: Thomas Cleary, Tomonori Nagano, Joyce Ma, Mariana Lopez de Castillo
The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a collection of images, essays, and video recordings documenting the experience of LaGuardia Community College students, especially those of the Asian descent, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project, built on the CUNY Academic Commons WordPress platform, illustrates how DH projects and publications can come in a variety of multimodal formats.
