Aurora Levins Morales offers a “kind of curandera’s handbook of historical practice” through 16 threads for creating medicinal histories (72).

In “The Historian as Curandera,” (find at this link: https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/chapter/2529431)

Aurora Levins Morales offers a “kind of curandera’s handbook of historical practice” through 16 threads for creating medicinal histories (72). Please select a thread that you found particularly intriguing or illuminating. What does this thread (for example, “make absences visible”) mean to you? How does it relate to Levins Morales’ theorization of medicinal histories as those histories that “seek to reestablish the connections between people and their histories, to reveal the mechanisms of power, the steps by which their current condition of oppression was achieved, through a series of decisions made by real people to dispossess them, but also to reveal the multiplicity, creativity, and persistence of their own resistance” (70-71)? (75-100 words)

Next,
Informed by this week’s focus on medicinal histories and other feminist historical approaches, please briefly review The New York Times’ 1619 Project (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/magazine/1619-intro.html). Following this review, please engage one of the following genealogical essays: I chose this one for you:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=D9BCC64DE73142D815EB56A468CD9D77&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL

After engaging your selected essay, please offer a scholarly discussion of how this essay deepens, shifts, expands, or otherwise informs your understanding of memory work and historical approaches as feminist activism. Your reflection should include specific examples from your selected essay (150-250 words).

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