Enslaved Histories: Reckoning with the Archive from Latin America

These panels will provide a Latin Americanist viewpoint that addresses whether dominant concepts of the archive adequately capture what remains for Latin America’s colonial and early republican period (1500-1830). The panels especially seek to address the methods and themes clustering around “the violence of the archive of slavery” and emergent concept about the effacements of Indigenous history from the archive due to “settler colonialism.” Presentations will focus on whether these theories and methods work for Latin Americanists. If not, perhaps we must create our own.