LoR FB Page – Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost – 337997503520730

Facebook Publication Date: 4/5/2019 12:04

Laying this here without commentary.

I want your thoughts.

But first, Jess’. She’s our March/April partner.

She says:

“Tell me how they managed to write an article about the histories of slavery centering a white adjunct professor in Canada and her goth childhood, mentioning the tireless work of a Sierra Leonean archivist who wants to write books but instead works for minimal salary enabling colonial scholars to write theirs…”

This is an entire mess.

The politics of the production of knowledge is not irrelevant to that knowledge itself.

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