Exploring the History of the Hungerford School
My essay, co-written with Scot French, “The Robert Hungerford School and Black Speculative Counterpublic in Eatonville, Florida,” was recently published in The Art of Anti-Racism: Aesthetic, Race, and Contemporary Political Theory. This is a part of an Eatonville trilogy I conceived alongside Scot to document a decade of digital public humanities focused on black heritage communities in Central Florida. Our initial effort to translate the community-based research and programmatic activities we conducted since 2014 appeared in Scholarly Editing. Our essay, "A Generative Praxis: Curation, Creation, and Black Counterpublics" outlines how our individual and collective work sat within a broader ideology of digital public humanities practice that sought to create what we described as Generative Digital Reciprocity.
We established a model of engagement that addressed concerns about open access and public knowledge to support heritage communities. We could not realize the fundamental dismantling of educational resources that supported this work. Despite the current circumstances, our work continues to chart paths that recognize the power of community activism.
