Editing the Early Caribbean: 18th-Century Anti-Racist Pedagogies

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A collaboration by the Early Caribbean Society, Society of Early Americanists, and the Bigger 6 Collective

Friday, 20 May 2022
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST
(on Zoom)

What are some anti-racist strategies we employ when using critical editions to teach 18th-century Caribbean texts?

What teaching methods are culturally responsive and relevant to early Caribbean experiences?

How might critical editions of early Caribbean texts provide an avenue through which to build more inclusive, anti-racist classrooms?

Session 1: Leonora Sansay’s The Secret History of the Horrors of St. Domingo, ed. Michael Drexler (Broadview Press, 2007). Keynote remarks followed by breakout discussion.

Session 2: Horatio Nelson Huggins’ Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form, ed. Désha Osborne (University Press of the West Indies, 2015). Keynote remarks followed by breakout discussion.

11 am- 1 pm: SECRET HISTORY: https://bit.ly/3wwwvFjm

1 pm- 2 pm BREAK

2 pm- 4 pm: HIROONA: https://bit.ly/3D3MH90

Thanks to sponsors, Alumnae of Northwestern. More to come in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

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