From: Emily Pfotenhauer <emily@wils.org> Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 17:36:01 -0500 Message-ID: <CAMtke02J+niLbGR4WNBy542Ww+v1L--2wNdO644YOk3a5CntcQ@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Webinar Friday, June 11th at 1:00 - WiLSWorld Shorts with the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective
On *June 11th at 1:00 pm CT*, tune into this WiLSWorld Shorts
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMld-uvqzsvHtZe0dDfGeYLzOGYCcHuR
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to learn more from Dr. Andrea-Teresa "Tess" Arenas about the Wisconsin
Latinx History Collective and how local historical societies and libraries
can contribute to the WLHC research agenda by:
- Providing connections to Latinx reputational leaders in your community
- Conducting local research to identify historical events, people, and
organizations of importance to the WLHC
- Becoming researchers to conduct oral history interviews and
identifying or collecting archives of WLHC interviewees in your communit
y
with training and coaching from WLHC
In January of 2020, the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective was created to
document the history of Latinx communities in Wisconsin. Vital to our
state's economy and society, members of the Latinx community are laborers,
field workers, industrialists, manufacturers, physicians, artists, poets,
scientists, and government officials. Yet, the historical record does not
currently reflect the Latinx role in Wisconsin. Furthermore, Latinx
populations in the United States, including Wisconsin, have been scapegoats
and targets of racism and discrimination at unprecedented levels,
especially in recent years, making “living while Brown” a d
aily challenge.
Therefore, the WLHC is working to “retrofit” Latinx people
into the
Wisconsin historical narrative by increasing the number of recorded oral
history interviews, archives, and artifacts at the Wisconsin Historical
Society and Museum.
Register to attend the webinar.
<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMld-uvqzsvHtZe0dDfGeYLzOGYCcHuR
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This webinar will be recorded and shared. Please connect with us at
information@wils.org if you have any questions.
Emily Pfotenhauer Community Liaison & Service Specialist, WiLS 608-616-9756 emily@wils.org