Resilience: A Community's Efforts to Center Black Heritage in St. Augustine, Florida

Laura Douglass Marion (University of Florida, USA) and Casey M. Wooster (University of Florida, USA)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 19
EISBN13: 9781668484470|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch001
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Abstract

From June 2020 to February 2022, a group of cultural and academic institutions in St. Augustine, Florida worked together to develop and facilitate the “Resilience: Black Heritage St. Augustine” project. This year-long collaboration aimed to bring together the many threads of Black history interwoven into the city. In this chapter, the authors explore the successes and challenges of developing a broad collaborative project, drawing attention to successful community engagement strategies and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the project. The chapter offers an exploration of the white and European-centered narratives embedded in the interpretation of St. Augustine's history and the ways in which the resilience project combats these narratives and articulates a commitment to diversified and inclusive collections, language, and storytelling.
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