Free and Open to the Public

Mapping Black New York:
an Interdisciplinary Search for Home

Marta Effinger-Crichlow

Wednesday, July 15, 6 pm
Lane Community College Downtown Center for Meeting and Learning

101 W. 10th Avenue Eugene, Oregon

 Professor Marta Effinger-Crichlow will discuss the evolution of her interdisciplinary course, “Black New York,” in which students explore how people of African descent have shaped the complex identity of New York City over time. She will explore how she uses fieldtrips across the city as well exploration of digital resources to help her students map their own search for a place–a home in the metropolis of New York.

Marta Effinger-Crichlow is Chair and Associate Professor of Theater and Literature at New York City College of Technology. She is the author of Staging Migrations toward an American West from Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones (University Press of Colorado 2014)

Professor Effinger-Crichlow is the author of Staging Migrations toward an American West (University Press of Colorado 2014)

This public keynote address is part of Lane’s
NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute