Why a Black Feminist Archive? Follow-Up with Dr. Irma McClaurin (3/12/2024)

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.
This presentation was conducted as a follow-up to Dr. Irma McClaurin's previous speech with HBW, once again in association with NEH. A more visual focused presentation this time around, Dr. McClaurin shares the progress she's made on her archive with BBIP scholars.
Dr. Irma McClaurin (linktr.ee/dr.irma) is an activist, anthropologist, editor at the Culture and Education for Insight News, and occasional radio and television commentator. She recently appeared in the PBS American Experience documentary “Zora Neale Hurston: Her Own Way,” and is the CEO and senior consultant for Irma McClaurin Solutions, a past president of Shaw University, and former Associate VP at the University of Minnesota and founding ED of UROC. Recognition includes 2023 Honorary Degree from Grinnell College, 2021 American Anthropological Association’s Engaged Anthropology Award, 2015 “Best in the Nation Columnist” by the Black Press of America, and 2002 “Outstanding Academic Title” for Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics.