Critical Introduction to Archives in Latin America: what, why, and for whom?

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A critical introduction to archives in Latin America. More than the raw materials of history, archives are sites for imagining the past, present, and future — but also sites of inequality that shape whose stories are told and whose silenced. Through readings, discussions, guest lectures, and field trips, students engage with different kinds of archives — from traditional collections of papers to non-traditional living and digital archives — to think about what archives are and can be, how different communities use them here and in Latin America, and how we can work towards a more egalitarian engagement with them.