“A Different Image, Another Sound: Resistant Rhetoric and Black Identity”
by Nhadya Lawes

First Place Winner
2021 Crossroads Digital Humanities Contest

Nhadya Simone Lawes is a third-year English Literature student at the University of Miami. A true interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner, her passions and studies intersect across Black Studies, Literary and Visual Cultures, and Black placemaking practices. A South Florida native, Nhadya remains involved in several areas of community impact. She is pursuing a career in museums and the arts, and has held several internships in the field.

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Her presentation, “A Different Image, Another Sound: Resistant Rhetoric and Black Identity,” is a result of her time as an Adobe Library Research Scholar at the University of Miami and looks at how and in what ways oppressive rhetoric has been rejected/reclaimed by the US Black community across eras.