The Center’s Public Humanities grants continued to support collaborative, community-oriented engagements on historical memory, activism, and representation.
“Heirs’ Property and Intergenerational Wealth” was a public discussion and documentation series created by UF Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Belay Alem, and Carol Richardson of the A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center to initiate conversations with Gainesville’s Africanquin American community on cultural, legal, and personal aspects of heirs’ properties. The events were a forum to learn about the emotions, memories, and histories of attachment people have to their built environment.
Joashilia Jeanmarie, an undergraduate student majoring in sociology and African American studies, partnered with Natalia Naranjo (Alliance for Fair Food) for a project “Promoting Haitian Creole Language Accessibility in Immokalee, Florida.” They organized a workshop that sought to improve a situation where, despite the wide use of Haitian Creole in Immokalee, welfare programs, activist engagement, and scholarship suffer from a lack of resources to make the language accessible.
Materials shared with participants in the Haitian Creole Language Access Project.
“The workshop began with a ‘Know your Rights’ training, during which participants were informed of their federally protected language access rights and given tools for self-advocacy. Community members were also given the opportunity to share their personal experiences with language disparity … In this, the workshop acted as a space for collective care as community members shared their grievances and offered support to one another.”
— Joashilia Jeanmarie
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