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We Are Not Strangers Here: African Americans in Rural California
Join San Diego native Dr. Caroline Collins (UCSD and UC Irvine), the Exhibit Researcher of our current exhibition, We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California (August 28 – October 23) as she discusses the curation process and the significance of the exhibit with Dr. Angela Booker (UCSD).
The exhibit highlights the hidden histories of African American farmers, ranchers, and rural residents who have shaped California’s food and farming culture from statehood to the present. Rural Black residents opened schools, worked the land, and fought for equal rights. Over successive migrations in the 19th and 20th centuries, generations settled in agricultural and rural areas from as far north as Siskiyou County to the Imperial Valley in the South.
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Related Podcast
Visit HERE for a related 6-episode We Are Not Strangers podcast series exploring further the African American experience in rural California and produced by Dr. Collins.
Program Speakers
Dr. Caroline Collins is a post-doctoral fellow in the Dept of History at UC Irvine. Her research examines public remembrances of the American West through ethnographic study, media production, public history exhibition, and the early histories of oceanic movement and settlement by people of African descent along the Pacific Coast.
Dr. Angela Booker teaches in the Dept of Communication at UCSD. She studies and researches the ways youth, families, and schools make use of media and technology for participation, learning, and community development. She is particularly concerned with addressing barriers that diminish access to public participation among underrepresented and disenfranchised communities.
About the Exhibit
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (Visit calhum.org to learn more), and the 11th Hour Project at the Schmidt Family Foundation.
We Are Not Strangers Here is a collaboration between Susan Anderson of the California African American Museum, the California Historical Society, Exhibit Envoy (Amy Cohen), Dr. Caroline Collins (Postdoctoral Scholar at UC San Diego), and the Cal Ag Roots Project at the California Institute for Rural Studies.