The Baltimore Field School kickoff event A View from Somewhere: Moving Towards Anti-Extractive Fieldwork Approaches was Tuesday, April 20 at 5:30pm in partnership with Red Emma’s bookstore and cafe. If you missed it, check out the video on Red Emma’s YouTube page:
VIDEO OF A VIEW FROM SOMEWHERE event
UMBC’s 2021 Baltimore Field School is a project that strives to envision models for ethical humanities research and teaching collaborations with communities in Baltimore. The project is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We also want to thank our co-sponsors for the event Department of American Studies + Public Humanities + the Dresher Center for the Humanities @ UMBC
Our 14 Baltimore Field School fellows include UMBC professors and graduate students who will think critically together this summer with community partners and develop individual and collective projects… while thinking through the complex ethics of humanities research. Click here for a list of fellows and people involved in the project.
The A View From Somewhere podcast episode “The End of Extractive Journalism,” was an inspiration for the following conversation…
Extractive journalism—reporting on communities without input or accountability—is the model for a lot of journalism in the U.S., especially journalism about low-income people and communities of color. But lots of people are and have been actively resisting this model. We hear from Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media in Detroit and Bettina Chang of City Bureau in Chicago about building journalism organizations based on power-sharing rather than extraction, how information can save lives in pandemic times, and how the COVID-19 crisis has changed their work.
Lewis Raven Wallace is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina. He’s a co-founder and co-director of Press On southern movement journalism collective, the author of book The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, and the host of The View from Somewhere podcast. He previously worked in public radio, and is a long-time activist engaged in prison abolition, racial justice, and queer and trans liberation. He is white and transgender, and was born and raised in the Midwest with deep roots in the South.
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Sarah Fouts is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at UMBC. Her research interests include transnationalism, Honduras, New Orleans, ethnography, political economy, public humanities, and food studies.
Camee Maddox-Wingfield is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health at UMBC. Her primary areas of research include dance anthropology, spirituality and religion in the African diaspora, feminist ethnography, and the Caribbean.