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In the Fall of 2019, Professor Tsitsi Jaji taught a split undergraduate-graduate student seminar at Duke called “Sound and Double Consciousness” that centered around the question of how sound across media could help illuminate W.E.B. Dubois’s concept of “double consciousness.” To take learning into their own hands, student collectives developed a series of collaborative digital projects that focused on specific texts important to critical race and sound studies. Each project focused on one of three texts: Njelle W. Hamilton’s Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel, Shana Redmon’s Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora, and Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse.