Black Joy & Resilience (BJ&R) is the product of a planning grant received from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission to develop and test a collaborative digital edition (DE) that documents and illustrates Black Joy & Resilience in the greater Philadelphia area.
Through almost 150 primary sources BJ&R counters contemporary media and historical projects focused on Black trauma. BJ&R examines stories of Black joy as expressed not just in the midst of anti-Blackness and state-sanctioned violence against Black bodies but in defiance of it.
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- Access
- Adaptability
- Adaptive Dynamic
- Advancement
- Affirmation
- Agency
- Ancestral
- Ancestry
- Art
- Artisanship
- Athleticism
- Attention
- Audacious
- Audacity
- Authenticity
- Autonomy
- Awareness
- Beauty
- Belonging
- Betterment
- Black is Beautiful
- Black Women's Identity
- Black Women’s Identity
- Black Youth
- Business
- Business Owner
- Capital
- Celebration
- Celebratory Vibrant
- Children
- Choice
- Chosen-Family
- Civic Goals
- Civic Organizing
- Class Mobility
- Coming-of-age
- Commitment
- Communal
- community
- Community Care
- Companionship
- Concerts
- Connection
- Connections
- Conversation
- Costuming
- Courage
- Creative[s]
- Creativity
- Cultural Awareness
- Cultural Celebrations
- Cultural Events
- Cultural Icons
- Cultural Resourcefulness
- Cultural Spaces
- Cultural Transmission
- Culture
- Curls
- Dance
- Dancing
- Defiant
- Designer
- Desire
- Determination
- Dignity
- Disrupt
- Dramatic
- Dreams
- Dress Up
- Dressing Up
- Economics
- Education
- Empowerment
- Enchantment
- Energy
- Engagement
- Enjoyment
- Enterprising
- Entertainment
- Entrepreneurship
- Erotic
- Excitement
- Extravagance
- Faith
- Family
- Fashion
- Fearless
- Food
- Fortitude
- Friendship
- Generational
- Generations
- Generosity
- Grace
- Graduation Parties
- Gratitude
- Growth
- Hair
- HBCU
- Healing
- Health
- Heritage
- Heroes
- Holidays
- Home
- Honesty
- Hope
- Identity
- Inclusion
- Indentity
- Innovation
- Innovator
- Inspiration
- Intelligence
- Intimacy
- Joy
- Joy Relationship and Community Building
- Justice
- Kindness
- Labor Organizing
- Laughter
- Leadership
- Learning
- Learning Spaces
- Legacy
- Leisure
- Lessons
- Local Black Business Owners
- Loyalty
- Manifestation
- Marriage
- Memory
- Merit
- Motivation
- Music
- Networking
- Opportunity
- Ownership
- Painting
- Parades
- Parties
- Party
- Pay
- Perseverance
- Piety
- Play
- Play Enterprising
- Poetry
- Political
- Political Goals
- Politics
- Positivity
- Possibility
- Presence
- Pride
- Professional Goals
- Progress
- Property Ownership
- Protection
- Publications
- Purchasing
- Radically Transformative
- Reaffirmation
- Reckoning
- Recognition
- Record Breaking
- Redefine
- Reflection
- Regional
- Relationship and Community Building
- Relationships and Community Building
- Relationships Community Building
- Relaxation
- Religiosity
- Remembrance
- Renewal
- Representation
- Repurposing
- Resileince
- Resilience
- Rituals
- Romance
- Roots
- Safe Space
- Self love
- Self-determination
- Self-esteem
- Self-expression
- Self-Improvement
- Self-reflection
- Self-Worth
- Sexuality
- Social Clubs
- Social Justice
- Songbooks
- Sororities
- Spirituality
- Spirituals
- Sports
- Status
- Stewardship
- Storytelling
- Strength
- Style
- Subversion
- Subversive
- Success
- Support
- Support System
- Swag
- Thriving
- Time together
- Tradition
- Traditions
- Travel
- Unapologetic
- Uplifting
- Values
- Visibility
- Vulnerability
- Woman Owned
- Womanism
- Womenism
- Work
- Yearning
- Youth