Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center’s founding by joining us for a workshop featuring a free curriculum guide (“Aesthetics of Black Power”) that draws on primary source materials from the Schomburg Center’s archives. Explore how fashion and personal style have been used to express power, pride, and resistance throughout Black history—plus discover primary source documents and free teaching tools to take back to your classroom.
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, style has remained integral to the ongoing creation of Black identity and serves as a key cultural and political force. This workshop will focus on Harlem’s role in shaping these cultural narratives. Educators will leave with tools and resources for engaging students in critical conversations that connect past and present, using style as a lens to explore history, community, and the Black radical imagination.
Eligible New York State teachers will receive 2 hours of CTLE credit.
Aesthetics of Black Power is part of Teaching with the Schomburg Center’s Archives, a curriculum series that draws on unique primary sources to help educators in teaching Black history, experience, and culture.
Plus, celebrate 100 years of the Schomburg Center! Join us all year long for a wide array of special events, exhibitions, and more as we celebrate this milestone and continue the legacy of Arturo Schomburg: schomburg.org/100
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