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Karen Carr

Karen Carr is associate professor emerita of history at Portland State
University. She has excavated at archaeological sites in Cyprus,
Greece, Israel, and Tunisia, and is the author of the award-winning
Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Spring 2022).

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Why Visiting a Museum Is Like Seeing My Friends in Jail

Avatar photo by Karen Carr July 15, 2021July 20, 2021

The development office thinks I love this museum. But no, I come to see the objects, just like I visit my friends.

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The Uneasy History of Swimming and Race, as Relayed Through Art

Avatar photo by Karen Carr May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Swimming has been racialized for 3,000 years, but for most of that time it was Africans who were good swimmers, and Europeans who tried to keep up.

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