Centers and Landscapes
In addition to the scholarship of ancestors/scholars of color who have contributed to folklore studies, this exhibition also highlights several notable cultural or regional centers, institutions, and organizations built by BIPOC cultural workers in three contextual essays. “Cultural landscapes,” refer to the contexts—physical, social, structural, and cultural—that frame interactions and collaborations that have been generative of folklore scholarship produced in communities of color. “Centers” are sites where several scholars worked fruitfully together or sequentially to examine and analyze folklore. The bolded names are linked to the profiles of featured scholars that worked in these centers and landscapes.
Centers
- Hampton Folklore Society (1893-1900)
- Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina (1862 – 1948)
- Program in Black American Culture (1972-2003)
- Center for Black Music Research (1983-2019) & Library/Archive (1990- 2019)
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1866-present)
- Association of African and African American Folklorists (AAAAF)
- The Negro Units of the Federal Writers’ Project and State Writers’ Projects (1935-1943)
- The Association of African American Museums (1961-present)