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In the academic year 2003-04, the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted a year-long, comprehensive “Jubilee
Commemoration” of Brown v. Board of Education, the
U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on school desegregation.
On- and off-campus units and individuals were invited to apply for
Jubilee Commemoration funding to support events, performances, lectures,
readings, films, and exhibits....As a supplement to this enormous
effort, campus administrators decided to study the commemoration
itself: hence the genesis of the Ethnography of the Brown v.
Board of Education Jubilee
Commemoration—EBC for short. EBC, a research collaborative
of ten undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, used
ethnographic methods of sustained participant observation, interviews,
and field research to study both the public life of the Commemoration
year and the campus’s broader “dialogue” on race
and diversity. (Introduction) |
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This website is intended to give people an introduction
to the findings of the EBC with links to the full report. The website
is divided into six sections: Brown Commemoration, EBC, The Team,
EBC Report,
Observed Events, and EBC Day-to-Day. |
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Brown Commemoration |
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This section provides a link to the official
Brown Commemoration website with listings of events, presentations,
related readings etc., as well as information about the people
who made it possible, the Producers. |
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EBC |
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This section is about EBC. It explains what an ethnography is (Ethnography:
A Primer), the purpose of EBC (The Charge), how it came to be
(EOTU to EBC), how it was funded (Cross-Campus Initiative), and how
it involved students and the community (Events and Students, Commemoration
and Community). |
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The Team |
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This section is about the people that worked on EBC, how they worked
together, and their reactions to what they learned. |
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EBC Report |
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This section is the main part of the website and provides access
to the full report. |
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Observed Events |
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This section is comprised of student researchers thoughts, field
notes, and
photographs on selected Brown Commemoration events, presenters
and happenings. |
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EBC Day-to-Day |
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This section is the nuts-and-bolts of how this
project was accomplished. It includes how the team members decided
which events to attend (Scheduling), learned how to conduct an ethnography
and interviews (Conducting Ethnography, Interviews), and manage
the technical aspects of working together (Webboard,
Notes on Notes, Drafting the Report). |
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