Ever since I first saw Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, I have fallen in love with history. Unfortunately, as a woman of color, history has often been a space of erasure for my story.
If history in academia is to be genuinely reflective of time, we must expand—yes, the buzzword of the century—the narrative beyond white perspectives, white legacies, and their stories.
Why do we discuss anthropological, sociological, psychological, historical, and scientific information merely to assert loose constructs instead of detailing the actual facts of time?
History is our mosaic photo album that can be beautifully narrated, but if we lie, manipulate, and erase, our nation will never be able to reconstruct its true identity.