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Source: Black Perspectives

3/31/2021

Working with Histories that Haunt Us

by Marius Kothor

The author responds to a recent essay on the traumatic aspects of archival research. As a political exile from Togo, her identity and experience converged with subject matter she couldn't study at a remove.

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Working with Histories that Haunt Us

by Marius Kothor