The development office thinks I love this museum. But no, I come to see the objects, just like I visit my friends.
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 forthcoming Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Spring 2022).
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The Uneasy History of Swimming and Race, as Relayed Through Art
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.