Watch video of a Dec. 9, 2009, talk, “Voices From Our America,” by Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo, associate professor of English.
Dr. Nwankwo shares new insights and information gained through the work of her Voices from Our America project. As a contribution to the realization of the robustly democratic America envisioned and called for by humanists such as Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass, and John Blassingame, The Voices from Our America™ project uncovers previously inaudible, silenced, or neglected American voices to facilitate cross-cultural and cross-generational conversation and to make these exchanges a fundamental part of K-12, collegiate, graduate, and community education in the U.S. and Panama. It does so by generating novel methods and venues by and through which students, faculty, community members, and institutional stakeholders can work collaboratively to advance local and hemispheric knowledge, connectedness, and cooperation.
The talk was part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series.
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