HON 211: Resilience over Racism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Inequality in Wilmington

HON 211: Resilience over Racism: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Inequality in Wilmington used co-taught interdisciplinarity to encourage students to consider how fields that emphasize different methods of analysis can be used in concert to understand the human impacts of violence and inequality wrought by events such as the 1898 massacre and the persecution of the Wilmington 10. Taught by Dr. Sarah Gaby (Sociology and Criminology) and Dr. Allison Harris (English), students interrogated Wilmington's history in resources such as film, fiction, political writing, quantitative census analysis, and academic research. Students engaged in archival research sponsored by a UNCW Community Engagement Grant partnership with the Latimer House archive, as well as in the Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History. Students’ projects illustrated how data and narrative together could tell a more robust story about the resilience of Black Wilmingtonians.