Developed by Keisha Allan, Baruch College

This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2023. The assignment asks students to create one or more visual social media posts to use monuments as the vehicle through which they create their own narratives about CUNY’s history of student activism.

The Teaching Material

Faculty Information

Keisha Allan, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Black & Latinx Studies at Baruch College. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Caribbean literature. Within this field, she examines Caribbean literature by women writers who critique social and political inequities in their societies. She examines how selected female authors from the Caribbean create fictional worlds that have the effect of subverting patriarchal perspectives and paradigms in their postcolonial societies. She interrogates society and artistic responsibility, with women presented as creatively engaged in revolutionary activities aimed at reshaping ideas and perspectives in the national imaginary.

Licensing Information

(Re)Mapping Monuments: Memory, Identity, and History is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. This license allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

(Re)Mapping Monuments: Memory, Identity, and History created by Keisha Allan is an open educational resource (OER), but linked resources have other licensing conditions.