Prof. Austin Receives HistoryMakers Digital Archives Award
As announced in Black Enterprise, Professor Paula Austin is a recipient of an Academic Research Award in HistoryMakers‘ 2020 Digital Archives Awards. Of her project “A History of Black (un)Rest,” Professor Austin writes,
This second book project aims to examine practices of “self-care” in Black (and people of color) activist and organizing communities from early civil rights through the Black Power era. The project seeks to identify discourses and artifacts of ways in which individuals and groups theorized, articulated, and practiced self-sustainability and care in struggles for economic, racial, and gender equity and justice. It will examine early racial and economic justice movements like black laundresses who mobilized for pay equity in post Reconstruction Atlanta, Ida B. Wells and early NAACP’s anti-lynching campaigns, through movements of the Black Power era, inclusive of an array of organizations from the 1950s through the 1990s.