El Museo del Norte
El Museo del Norte
Passionate Praxis on the Streets of Detroit
This essay offers an overview of the El Museo del Norte, a community/university partnership with the goal of establishing a “museum without walls” in Detroit, Michigan. The essay provides some background on the genesis and development of the museum project, as well as it’s scholarly, pedagogical and community goals. Beyond offering a narrative of the project, the essay also engages with some of the conceptual, methodological, and personal questions that shape such public humanities initiatives. As such, it offers a meditation on the challenges and productive tensions that arise when our scholarship and teaching engages with modes of knowledge production that exceed the boundaries of the classroom or the library.
Keywords: Detroit, Michigan, Repatriation, Immigration/migration, praxis, Public Humanities, Community-Engaged Scholarship, Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Museum Studies
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