Publications
Journal articles and anthologies related to the project include:
Collins, Caroline (February 2023) Black Americans have deep ties to the Pacific — but they’ve been erased. Black Western Conversation Series, Washington Post.
Collins, Caroline (January 2023). Water berth: My journey to the Black Pacific as a site of memory and futurity. Public: A Journal of Imagining America, 7(1).
The project’s upcoming public exhibition also includes a planned correspondent volume published in Mains’l Haul, the only peer-reviewed North American journal devoted to the Pacific’s maritime heritage. The volume’s call for submissions will be released by Dr. Kevin Sheehan, (Collections Manager and Editor, Maritime Museum of San Diego), in late 2025 / early 2026.
Presentations and conference papers related to the project include:
“Talk with Take Me to the Water Traveling Exhibition’s Curator,” sponsored by the Sacramento Public Library (via Zoom). February 8, 2024.
“Take Me to the Water: Histories of the Black Pacific.” 46th Annual Wooden Boat Festival. Northwest Maritime Center, Port Townsend, Washington. September 9, 2023.
“The Shifting Winds of Race: Racial Construction in the Eastern Black Pacific, 1502–1945.” Panel: Across Many Pacifics: Black, Chinese, and Indigenous Histories in Pacific Worlds. Western History Association. Westin Bonaventure. Los Angeles, California. October 26–29, 2023.
“Public Pedagogies and the Black Pacific (Parts One and Two),” Caroline Collins, Communication 102C: Practicum in New Media and Community Life. Invited Guest Lecture Series. Instructor of Record: Riley Taitingfong. UC San Diego (via Zoom). October 6, 2022 and October 13, 2022.
“View From the West: The Public ReMaking of Race in California Across Multiple Colonialisms,” Caroline Collins, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (PCB-AHA) Annual Conference, Portland State University. Portland, Oregon. August 10-12, 2022.
“Black Geographies of the American West in Public Memory,” Caroline Collins, Society of California Pioneers, May 31, 2022 (via Zoom).
“Monuments to the Future: Reimagining Black and Indigenous Futures in American Public Aesthetics,” Caroline Collins with Dr. K. Wayne Yang (Provost, Muir College, UC San Diego), Art in Context: Identity, Ethics, and Insight. Philadelphia Museum of Art. May 18, 2022 (via Zoom).
“Re-Constructing Conquest: The Erasure of Black and Indigenous Ontologies in San Diego Public Memory,” Caroline Collins, Joint Conference of the John Dewey Society and the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society. Border Justice and InterAmerican Cooperation. Centro Cultural de la Raza. San Diego, California. April 20-21, 2022.
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