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Vanderbilt University
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos
Consortium Representatives:
Mona Frederick
Executive Director
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
VU Station B # 351534
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235
mona.frederick@vanderbilt.edu
Teresa Goddu
Associate Professor of English
Director, American Studies Program
230 Buttrick Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
teresa.a.goddu@vanderbilt.edu
Featured Program
VOICES FROM OUR AMERICA©
The Voices from Our America project aims 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 uncovering previously hidden or neglected histories of American experience and 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. This work has the potential to immeasurably enrich our understandings of the particularities, similarities, disparities, and complexities that constitute life in Our America.
VFOA has two core dimensions. The first is the collection of oral histories via interviews. The second is the use of these new primary sources as bases for “active learning” and research, for the broadening of knowledge bases through direct engagement with these materials and the individuals whose stories they reflect, enhancing and creating new curricula at/for a range of educational levels, at Vanderbilt and beyond. This includes the packaging of the information into forms that can be presented (eg. portable Powerpoint modules), exhibited, (eg. as audio or video additions to a museum exhibition), and disseminated (eg. book, website, documentary) locally and widely as well as the sponsoring of workshops for teachers, students, and community groups using the already collected materials. The initial two phases of the project are as follows:
VFOA: Panamanians of West Indian Descent
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal, the man-made waterway that changed the international shipping industry forever, opened. It was the result of the death-defying labor of hundreds of thousands of Black British West Indian men, recruited by the U.S. from their home islands with both true and false promises about the presumably golden opportunity building the canal represented for them. The segment of VFOA works to capture the beautiful and ugly experiences of the workers’ descendants in their own words, and guide interested individuals and groups in using that material to expand awareness of these histories/these stories in Panama and in the U.S.
VFOA: African American Worldviews
This segment of VFOA will focus on generating testimonies that shed light on this community’s perceptions of and engagements with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa and, most significantly, immigrants from these sites who reside in the U.S. The ultimate goal is to produce materials that enrich the ways scholars, politicians, students, and lay people think and talk about African American engagements with immigrants, providing bases for informed policy making, programming, curricula, and interaction that facilitate collective progress instead of fomenting competition or stereotyping.
Visit the VFOA website.