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    And Still We Rise: Celebrating the (Re) Discovery of Plattsburgh’s Iconic Black Visitors

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    2019-05-01
    Author
    Alcis, Marie
    Baird, Jacob
    Church, Kyla
    Elsayed, Nouran
    Hirose, Juntaro
    Lacouture, Domenica
    Long, Jenna
    McGarrity, James
    McMahon, John
    Namihira, Yukari
    Noble, Keianna
    Scott, Alyssa
    Shaw, Josh
    Wada, Kentaro
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    political science
    SUNY Plattsburgh
    African-American political thought
    Abstract
    Scholar and activist Robin D.G. Kelley, in his Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002), conceptualizes “visions fashioned by … Black activists who proposed a different way of our constructions” as “freedom dreams” that “tap the well of [Black] collective imaginations” in order to posit a transformed political society (xii). And Still We Rise (re)discovers Black activists, politicians, writers, and musicians who have brought their own visions to the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in the years 1963-1998. This semester, our African-American Political Thought course has explored, among other themes, slavery in America, abolitionist movements, Black perspectives on Reconstruction and Jim Crow, civil rights and Black power struggles in the 20th century, Black feminism, Black cultural production, and contemporary interrogations of antiblack racism. Black politics and culture teaches us—among many other lessons—that theory is not separated from life experience, and that abstract thought should not be dissociated from the practice of social transformation. And Still We Rise works to affirm the spirit of this insight. With the exhibit, we turn our collective analysis in the classroom outward to the campus as a whole, reviving and making visible glimpses of iconic Black freedom dreams that have at some point animated the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. At a time when our campus—and, to be sure, the country more broadly—is compelled to reexamine its relationship to antiblack racism, And Still We Rise testifies to Black pasts, presents, and possible futures at SUNY Plattsburgh. It can constitute, we hope, one impetus among many for an active, self-reflective pursuit of racial and social justice, a pursuit grounded in Black experiences. This is an exhibit that centers Black life on campus and that asserts that Black lives do matter. As you engage with the histories presented here, we invite you to consider the visions and dreams for the events, conversations, commitments, actions, collectivities, and imaginations that And Still We Rise can impart.
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    Digital exhibit available at https://plattsburghrocks.org/exhibits/show/and-still-we-rise
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1951/70871
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