Revolutionary Skillshare: ADFC and Rethinking Community-centered Education

• In Event: Seepage: Viscous Readings of African Diasporic Archives

Description for Program

The African Diasporic French class (ADFC) serves as a metaphor for seepage, in understanding seepage as unconscious matter becoming conscious. The course has resulted in bridging connections across Louisiana and the country thanks to the digital space. The course pinpoints people and moments in the history of African-descendant peoples, linking them geographically and temporally, in order to break down widely-held myths entrenched in nationalism, colonialism, linguistic superiority and racism. And the course has resulted in some African-descendant folks confronting the reality that though public school systems do not cover/have not covered history about the continent or the diaspora, we can give that to ourselves and be the inheritors/stewards of that knowledge in adulthood.

Author

• Chenise Calhoun, Tulane University