Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside
Jasmin A. Young is an an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC-Riverside, and was most recently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at UCLA. As a historian, her research interests focus on Black twentieth-century freedom struggles with specialization in the Black Power Movement.
Young’s AADHum project derives from her extensive research on Black women in the Black Power Movement and her role as an editor of the Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings. It prototypes the first phase of a digital archive of participants in the Black Power Movement from 1955-1985, with an emphasis on using metadata to reveal a multitude of historical interventions. Young is inspired by the possibilities of evolving technologies, new media, and digital platforms to enhance public knowledge of the Black Power Movement.
In December 2020, AADHum — The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities at University of Maryland College Park — presented Black as X: Platforming Experimental Scholarship, our first AADHum Scholars Symposium for the 2020 cohort. In a series of conversations with noted Black Studies scholars, each scholar offered project demonstrations, discussed their project process, and speculated on future project iterations. Join us in exploring the capaciousness of Black life through experimentation with digital methods!
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