by farleyj7 | Feb 21, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Big, ambitious projects require energy and huge sets of data that isn’t easily accessible. No surprise there! But, why? Why is archival research a maddening, mind-numbing, stress-inducing and life-reducing process? At the crux of this heated debate are signed over...
by farleyj7 | Feb 5, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
This is my story: Detroit 1967 is in the infancy of development. So, what is it again? It is a multimedia archive and repository that serves to catalog and historicize this canonical and significant time in the 20th century with oral histories from eyewitnesses and...
by farleyj7 | Dec 18, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
“They [the media] just referred to it as a riot. Down on the ground it looked like a rebellion. But the media and the power structure had a lot of things wrong,” said Ed Vaughn, activist and businessman in Detroit.[1] This is my story: Detroit 1967 is an oral history...
by farleyj7 | Oct 21, 2015 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
This post is dedicated to the amazing and internationally renowned Dr. Geneva Smitherman–Dr. G. To keep it brief, as she has too many accolades to list, Dr. G is the University Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of English and Core Faculty to the...
by farleyj7 | Sep 25, 2015 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
My name is Joyce-Zoe Farley; I’m a second-year doctoral student in African American and African Studies (AAAS) with a graduate certification in Advance Journalism. My research focuses on riots, rebellions, civil disturbances and uprisings of the 20th century...
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