“Facts are not created equal: The production of traces is always also the creation of silences.”
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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Chaun Webster’s print works “look critically at how privileged source materials dictate who and what stories have been credibly documented.” For the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship Series VII at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Webster created woodblock relief prints of a series of redactions from an account in a slave ship ledger.
Chaun Webster’s print works “look critically at how privileged source materials dictate who and what stories have been credibly documented.” For the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship Series VII at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Webster created woodblock relief prints of a series of redactions from an account in a slave ship ledger.
SEC. 01
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
DECONSTRUCTING RACE
SEC. 02
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
DISRUPTING MASTER NARRATIVES
SEC. 03
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
DECOLONIZING THE ARCHIVES
SEC. 04
ENDING SILENCES
ENDING SILENCES
SEC. 05
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
DENYING HISTORICAL SURVEILLANCE
SEC. 06
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES
WRITING COUNTERHISTORIES