Date of Award

5-2020

Document Type

Thesis

First Advisor

Cynthia Copeland

Abstract

In American history education, particularly in the museum sphere, the Black experience has been taught through a damage or deficit based framework elevating particular luminaries as heroes who succeeded despite their blackness. This curriculum and it’s supporting literature aim to acknowledge and upend this framework by integrating the Black experience into general US History lessons and introducing students to figures whose Blackness was a factor in their success and not a challenge to overcome. Through a project-based learning model students will explore the life story of a particular individual and create an artistic representation of them to showcase their ability to absorb historical information and translate it into their own expression.

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Museum education (Program of study)

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