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Critical Commentary
This image is part of a digital exhibit, “Resistance through Persistence: Enslaved Women and Culture in Louisiana.” The exhibit was curated by UL Lafayette History students studying the public history of slavery. The exhibit emphasizes the many ways enslaved women engaged in everyday acts of resistance.
The exhibit is housed in the Guilbeau Center for Public History in the Department of History, Geography and Philosophy at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. The center is aimed at “helping public historians incorporate diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility in their work and we focus on projects that decolonize public history … as historians, we rely on rigorous historical research to demonstrate the distinctions between public memory, falsified historical narratives, and evidence based historical facts” (https://www.guilbeaucenter.com/about).
The Guilbeau Center also houses the Recent Louisiana Disasters Oral History Project, as well as other materials from other projects—historians for the center are currently working on building a collection of stories from the UL Lafayette community on the covid-19 pandemic and Movement for Black Lives, which they have named Shared Histories. They are building an archive of photos, typed entries, audio recordings, and videos. They also already have an exhibit at the Arsenal-Cabildo at Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans called “Do No Harm: The Healing Touch of Louisiana Women in Medicine”.
Lastly, the center also has a student-driven Public History project called “Museum on the Move”. This exhibit is designed and curated by students within the interior of the van, which can take exhibits around the state. Travelling exhibits have included: “Cross the Line: Louisiana Women in a Century of Change,”, “Drill Baby Drill” on the oil industry in Louisiana, and “Unmasking Traditions: Mardi Gras in Louisiana,” as well as an exhibit on Hurricane Harvey oral histories.
Abshire, Cody, et al. 2019. “Resistance through Persistence: Enslaved Women and Culture in Louisiana.” UL Department of History, Geography and Philosophy and the Guilbeau Center for Public History. https://www.guilbeaucenter.com/new-page-42.