Using an example from his current book project, Daniel Grant will lead a roundtable conversation via WebEx about the ethical, methodological, and practical challenges and possibilities of combining archival research with public history. He will share lessons from facilitating a public history event with members of contemporary Indigenous, African American and Anglo communities in Yuma, Arizona whose interwoven and conflicted histories living along the Colorado River he is writing about. There, everyone reckoned with the raw archival material of their shared histories, in the process changing understandings of the past and offering glimpses of more just futures. Roundtable participants will be invited to share experiences from their own work to grapple with decolonization not as an abstraction but as a set of practices that scholars and writers can incorporate into their own research and partnerships. 

 

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