National Museum of American History | What's in an Identity? | Denea Joseph on the Practice of Intersectional Organizing @SmithsonianAmHistory | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Denea Joseph organizes on behalf of the 619,000 Black undocumented immigrants ignored or overlooked in government policies and media portrayals of the movement. Denea finds strength in recognizing the long history of U.S. immigration from all continents.
Teachers! Educators! Seekers of knowledge! Connect past and present with the Learning Lab to discover how issues impacting undocumented communities have deep roots in the nation’s history. In What’s in an Identity, we explore the Smithsonian’s collections to understand intersectional organizing over the past 60 years. From the Poor People’s Campaign to recent immigrant rights marches, we see movements that have embraced t the multifaceted backgrounds and ways of self-understanding that participants bring to the struggle. These resources provide the opportunity to consider how identities shape organizing in a democracy: https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/XF1Bhzqj49t7IuEg
The Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like series is part of the museum's Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. For more information about Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like visit: https://americanhistory.si.edu/tell-me-what-democracy-looks-like
Denea Joseph organizes on behalf of the 619,000 Black undocumented immigrants ignored or overlooked in government policies and media portrayals of the movement. Denea finds strength in recognizing the long history of U.S. immigration from all continents.
Teachers! Educators! Seekers of knowledge! Connect past and present with the Learning Lab to discover how issues impacting undocumented communities have deep roots in the nation’s history. In What’s in an Identity, we explore the Smithsonian’s collections to understand intersectional organizing over the past 60 years. From the Poor People’s Campaign to recent immigrant rights marches, we see movements that have embraced t the multifaceted backgrounds and ways of self-understanding that participants bring to the struggle. These resources provide the opportunity to consider how identities shape organizing in a democracy: https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/XF1Bhzqj49t7IuEg
The Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like series is part of the museum's Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. For more information about Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like visit: https://americanhistory.si.edu/tell-me-what-democracy-looks-like
