Recovering Untold Stories: From the First Millennium to Today

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The Black Lives Matter movement has shown how structural inequalities in our contemporary US society have created distinctly different experiences for minoritized communities. This problem is not unique to our contemporary world. In our understanding of global history, many voices have been overlooked. How can we understand histories of ancient societies that did not leave a written record? This course examines the ways in which researchers reconstruct histories of ignored and forgotten communities from the ancient to contemporary world today. We also consider what communities have been overlooked in our local Santa Barbara history and what means we have to reconstruct these histories.