Visualizing Minor Stories: Archives, Museums, Histories

Catalog description

Explores local/ global archives to document distant, marginal or invisible histories. Guided research in Duke's collections and other museums, galleries, and digital collections. Examines injustice, liberation, and empowerment through knowledge production. Trace historical divisions and produce related research and creative projects. Variable topics like travel and missionary writings; wartime and military records of American wars in Asia and the Middle East; Afro-Asian solidarity; global and American civil rights; imperialism and the global cold war, global diasporas including Asian/American and other minority movements. Explore variable forms: oral histories, film and photography, digital exhibitions, and creative works.