Join us for the opening event for the California History-Social Science Project’s Sources of Justice online scholar series where participants deeply analyze and interpret primary sources with a focus on how race and racism has informed and shaped our concept of justice in American and World History.
We kick off the series on February 24th when we will hear from Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, a professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and History at Rutgers University, who will model how scholars, teachers, and students can uncover and disrupt the discursive power of the archives of slavery and black life through guided primary source analysis. Together we will probe the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s documents from Breonna Taylor’s murder alongside an enslaved woman’s state execution and community commemoration.
Funded by the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources program, the Sources of Justice series will bring together CHSSP’s network of scholars, teacher leaders, and teacher educators to inquire into questions such as what or who are sources of justice; how have scholars used primary sources to shape our understanding of struggles for justice over time and place; and what does justice or its absence feel and look like in primary sources?
Join us online (4-5:30pm, PST) for one webinar or the entire series. Register here.