Developed by Dasharah Green, Baruch College & Lehman College
This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2022. The assignment asks students to develop a critical framework for how to reimagine, rediscover, and engage with storytelling and build their own interpretations of history and archival material. The scaffolded activities in this assignment lead to a final nonfiction project in which students will co-create an accessible interactive repository based on their engagement with the CUNY 1969 archive and the spatial affect of CUNY campus(es).
The Teaching Material
Assignment type:
Creative nonfiction project
Keywords:
writing, activism, research, archives, assignment, affect, critical fabulation, repository, rhetoric
Faculty Information
Dasharah Green is an English PhD student at The CUNY Graduate Center. She received a BA from John Jay College and an MA from St. John’s University. Her current research explores Black feminist archives and the art of Black women storytelling. She uses language as a tool to reimagine and uncover/track histories and genealogies of Black life through writing and storytelling. Dashara has several creative writing pieces and scholarly essays published in various interdisciplinary journals. She currently teaches at Baruch and Lehman.
Licensing Information
Reimagining the Archive is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. This license allows reusers 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.
The Reimagining the Archive assignment created by Dasharah Green is an open educational resource (OER), but linked resources have other licensing conditions.