Margi
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I am a 26 year old graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University, pursuing an MA in International Education Development, with special attention to Peace and Human Rights Education. This project was birthed in my Harlem kitchen amongst friends over great food and student-priced wine, gained traction through my Memory, History, and Curriculum class discussions and inspiring readings, and finally came to fruition by the impetus to complete a final assignment.
Here, I will leave you my final paper, which contains my original imagination for the project, what I discovered, as well as some greater conceptualization of my neighborhood.
A text that I perused, was inspired by, but did not include in my final paper:
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
by Sharifa Rhodes - Pitts
Some of the work was pieced together at Lenox Coffee, on 129th and Lenox. Here, you find a recording of music and noise you hear there.
I cannot emphasize the personal effect this project has afforded me and the world of inquiry it has opened up. A special thanks to those that helped me shape and track my thoughts throughout their many changes, my assistant, friends, roommates, and neighbors - thank you for the support and help - you know who you are!
And because I'd rather exit on his words than mine, I give you the poetic stylings of my bygone neighbor Langston Hughes.
Here, I will leave you my final paper, which contains my original imagination for the project, what I discovered, as well as some greater conceptualization of my neighborhood.
A text that I perused, was inspired by, but did not include in my final paper:
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
by Sharifa Rhodes - Pitts
Some of the work was pieced together at Lenox Coffee, on 129th and Lenox. Here, you find a recording of music and noise you hear there.
I cannot emphasize the personal effect this project has afforded me and the world of inquiry it has opened up. A special thanks to those that helped me shape and track my thoughts throughout their many changes, my assistant, friends, roommates, and neighbors - thank you for the support and help - you know who you are!
And because I'd rather exit on his words than mine, I give you the poetic stylings of my bygone neighbor Langston Hughes.