Intro to Afro-PWW with Marilyn Thomas-Houston (BBIP Webinar: 10/9/2020)

The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) - part of the University of Kansas's History of Black Writing project (HBW) - is a digital archive of over 7,000 Black-authored texts. It launched in 2010 and has received funding from KU, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. PhiloLogic, a searchable online metadata platform from the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago, powers BBIP's HBW Novel Corpus.
These webinars are part of BBIP's Extending the Reach Scholars Program: a series of live event digital humanities webinars conducted by BBIP community partners and advisors that inform and support the scholars’ work.
Marilyn Thomas-Houston is the Co-Director of the Mellon-funded AFRO Publishing Without Wall (Afro-PWW) Initiative for the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an Associate Professor, Emerita at the University of Florida. She received an NEH Grant from the University of Kansas, and is the author "Stoney The Road to Change Black Mississippian Culture," senior editor of "Homing Devices. The Poor as Targets of Public Housing and Practice," editor of the special issue of "International Journey of Africana Studies: Sustaining Black Studies in the 21st-Century," and co-founding editor of "Fire!!! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies."