Our second student work feature for Black Histories and Futures Month is a project by Kaitlyn Berlettano created in her course HIST 402-005: Thinking While Black: Black Intellectual History taught by Dr. Daniel McNeil. In this assignment, students were asked to adapt the life and work of African American activists, artists, and thinkers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for contemporary audiences. Berlettano chose to utilize the popular online platform Pinterest to communicate Ida B. Wells' crusades for justice. In this project, Berlettano imagines what Ida B. Wells' Pinterest account would look like through curating a collection of modern graphics , videos, and historical images to convey Well's dedication to the civil rights movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Explore Berlettano's Pinterest board here. Be sure to click through the image tiles as many are accompanied by captions.
In honour of Black Histories and Futures Month, the Department of History is featuring undergraduate student research that addresses Black histories, Black cultures, and Black experiences. Throughout the month of February, we will post the projects deemed to be the strongest by our faculty. The selected papers were produced for courses in the Department of History.
We hope you enjoy reading our students’ work! Learn more about events on campus and in Kingston celebrating Black Histories and Futures Month here.
