{"id":1620,"date":"2022-12-14T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1620"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T14:44:18","slug":"crafting-democratic-futures-project","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/crafting-democratic-futures-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Democratic Futures Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/reparations.jpg 1762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Description:&nbsp;<\/strong>This HistoryLab will be taught in conjunction with the Mellon-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/craftingdemocraticfutures.org\/\">Crafting Democratic Futures<\/a> project (run through the <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/social-solutions\/history-and-slavery\/craftingdemocraticfutures.html\">U-M Center for Social Solutions<\/a>), which is partnering with Washtenaw County, Flint, and Detroit community leaders to develop reparations plans, as well as with WQED, the Pittsburgh public television station, to make a documentary film about the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of a standard primary source-based research paper, the final product of this graduate-level History 717  course will be case books, written and compiled for the community leaders and documentary filmmakers to understand the broader, global context of reparations and to provide documentary evidence for the reparations plans of the Crafting Democratic Futures project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students will work collaboratively with peers in research teams, guided by U-M professors Earl Lewis and Rita Chin, to create case books for three countries that perpetrated state-sanctioned racial violence: the United States, Germany, and South Africa. This work will involve defining \u201creparations\u201d in relation to other concepts; developing an understanding of how each national reckoning did or did not take place; synthesizing scholarly debates; creating a timeline to trace how reparations changed over time; identifying primary documents associated with each case; and curating this information in an accessible form. Teams will present their \u201ccase books\u201d to the community leaders, filmmakers, and Crafting Democratic Futures working group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Principal Investigators:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rita Chin, Earl Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-cbcdc57d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/craftingdemocraticfutures.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crafting Democratic Futures Website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lab, students work collaboratively to create case books on state-sanctioned racial violence for use by community leaders, filmmakers, and the Crafting Democratic Futures working 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