Abdul Alkalimat, University of Illinois at Urbana

Reflections on Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Mapping and Pointing the Way
Abdul Alkalimat
University of Illinois
Historical development of Black Studies
Black Studies as social movement
Black liberation movement targets
higher education and creates new
intellectual space for creative
work to serve the needs of the people
Black Studies as academic profession
Black Studies conforms to campus
culture and administrative practices
and becomes estranged from the
community
Black Studies as knowledge network
With digital technology, Black Studies
begins to reunite with the community
via cyberspace and become a major
global discourse
D-7 eBlack Studies
Methodology
D1: Definition
D2: Data
D3: Digitization
D4: Discovery
D5: Design
D6: Dissemination
D7: Difference
Univ. of Illinois
digital representation
in eBlack Studies
What can we find out in the archives of Chicago:
Black politics, Black librarians, and Black Studies?
Mapping the history of Chicago Black Politics
(We got some archives but we need much more.)
Archibald (Carey (21.25)
Arthur Mitchell (31)
Bennett Stewart (.5)
Cardiss Collins (287)
Carol Mosley Braun (517.5)
Cecil Partee (13)
Charles Armstrong (2.5)
Charles Hayes (3)
Corneal Davis (3)
Eugene Sawyer (99)
James O’Hara (3)
Louana Jones (.5)
Margaret Smith (40, 5.21)
Oscar DePriest (5.3)
Ralph Metcalfe (.5)
Richard Newhouse (12)
Roland Burris (19.5)
William Dawson (.5)
Harold Washington (1922 – 1987)
Seventeen archival collections
(3.25, 9.25, 28.5, 54, 54, 62, 24, 27,
15, 15, 73, 32.5, 12, 9, 18.75, 56.25, 87)
The African American Librarian
Personal papers and organizational files
People:
Adlean Harris
Alfred Woods (12)
Charlemae Rollins (56)
[ Joseph Rollins (53) ]
Clemintine Skinner (4, 14)
Doris Saunders (75)
Edward Manney (11)
Fritz Veit (3.75)
Nannie Pinkney (1)
Organizations:
Black Caucus of the
ALA - Chicago
Chapter (6)
Branch archives:
Cleveland Hall (28)
Carter G Woodson (74)
Vivian Harsh (99)
Mapping the history of Black Studies:
Documenting the founders
Abdul Alkalimat (33) Leon Wash (44)
Allison Davis (43.5)
Leroy Bryant (132)
Cyrus Colter (1.88, 10) Margaret Burroughs (52)
Charles Evans (12)
Maria Mootry (5)
Grace Holt (14)
Madeline Stratton Morris (10)
Dennis Brutus (15.85) Lorenzo Turner
Dominique-Rene DeLerma (36) Tim Black (3.5, 122)
Eileen Southern (25.5) Val Gray Ward (40)
Leon Forrest (6.43)
William Exum (1.46)
Mapping the history of Black Studies:
White Allies
Erwin Salk (80)
Eugene Feldman (12)
Frank Untermyer (10)
Gwendolen Carter (55, 46)
Melville Herskovits (22, 78)
Robert Park
We’re finding the graves,
now its time for resurrection!
New librarianship is digital, so is 21st century scholarship
Thank you
For more discussion join
H-Afro-Am@H-Net.msu.edu