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• 1 media/Teaching Schema 6-05.jpg 2020-08-19T15:21:36-07:00 Contextualizing St. Louis 54 plain 2020-09-08T10:30:48-07:00 We live, we teach, and we learn in St. Louis. It only makes sense that we integrate St. Louis in its many contexts – social, political, historical – into our work through research and teaching.
  Contextualizing St. Louis can help bridge the divide between theory and practice, giving our work renewed relevance and make its impact tangible and visible to our students and the broader community. Our connection to place strengthens a sense of purpose and belonging that’s invaluable to understanding how we ourselves can positively impact social fabrics.  
  
  The resources provided below are meant to be a starting place. They should open up new lines of inquiry and better position us to introduce St. Louis to our work and our classrooms. When contextualizing St. Louis, it is important to complicate dominate narratives with the inclusion of many voices, for that reason, no list of resources would ever suffice to help one say they “know St. Louis." Knowing St. Louis is a continued action in which we always seek new knowledge, new histories, new stories, and new voices. Including a cross section of voices and perspectives often means presenting students with opposing storytelling and asking them to make sense of it – we must do the same. Some of that work is done directly with community through community engaged learning, but that work can also be done by developing relationships with our neighbors and welcoming community voice into our professional domains.  

  Curated Relevant Content

  Read 

  • Land Acknowledgement
  • American Indians in Missouri Timeline
  • Forward Through Ferguson Report
  • Dismantling the Divide Report
  • Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American City (Book & Website)
  • St. Louis Reports and Case Studies (Digital versions of government reports about St. Louis) 
  • Higher Ground: Honoring Washington Park Cemetery, Its People and Place
  • The Seeds of Regionalism
  • Fragmented By Design: Why St. Louis Has So Many Governments
  • Dr. John A Wright, Sr. Book Series (African Americans in Downtown St. Louis, African American St. Louis, Kinloch: Missouri’s First All Black City, The Ville: St. Louis, and St. Louis: Disappearing Black Communities) 

  Watch

  • Nine Network | Living St. Louis
  • Mean Streets: Viewing the The Divided City Through the Lens of Film and Television 
  • The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

  Listen

  • We Live Here (Podcast)
  • Monument Lab rethinks memorials and historic sites of St. Louis (Cut & Paste)
  • The Broken Heart of America (St. Louis On the Air)

  Experience

  • The Academy for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offers Zoom "In St. Louis" learning sessions 
  • The In St. Louis Project
  • Documenting Ferguson
  • Mapping LGBTQ St. Louis
  • Humans of St. Louis
  • State Historical Society of Missouri Digital Collections
  • Missouri Historical Society Research Library
    • See STL Tours, including Virtual Tours
    • The History at Home (Interactive Activities)
  • Local Museums 
    • The Griot
    • The Vashon Museum
    • MO History Museum
    • Scott Joplin House

  Credits

  Nichole Murphy
  Community Engagement Fellow
  nnmurphy@wustl.edu

   

   

   

   

   

  
  Stefani Weeden-Smith
  Stefani Weeden-Smith
  Assistant Director for Community Engagement
  weeden-smith.s@wustl.edu