Archives as Spaces of Reckoning: An Overdue Conversation with Elsa Mendoza
Oct 03, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Episode description
Would knowing that reparations were enacted for slaveholders change the conversation around the feasibility of reparations today? Can archives be spaces of repair and reconciliation? This week we speak with Elsa Mendoza, historian at Middlebury College and former curator in the Georgetown Slavery Archives at Georgetown University about the role of archives in the debate about reparations…