Public History and Reparations: Social Mobilization and the Legacy of Slavery in the African Diaspora Today

Stephen Small, University of California, Berkley. Sponsored by Department of Africology, Department of History,
Program in Museum Studies (Anthropology Department), Center for 21st Century Studies and Cultures & Communities.

Professor Small’s talk will center on public history, museums, memory, and the legacy of enslavement. Through his
work on representations of slavery in museums in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands,
Prof. Small will examine how Black populations and their supporters continue to mobilize around reparations, and
how the exchange of diasporic resources provides sustenance in the struggle to decolonize the mind.