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

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Author(s): Laura Douglass Marion (University of Florida, USA) and Casey M. Wooster (University of Florida, USA)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 19
Source title: Cases on Establishing Effective Collaborations in Academic Libraries
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mary E. Piorun (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA) and Regina Fisher Raboin (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch001

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science / Library Administration / Library Science

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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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