Department of History

Dr. Ricia Anne Chansky, Professor and Director of the Oral History Lab, UPR Mayaguez; Jose Morales Benitez, Librarian, UPR Mayaguez & Christina Boyles, Assistant Professor of Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities, Michigan State University Traditional academic research often relies on the violence of extraction—the taking of people, resources, goods, and ideas from the marginalized in order …

Organized by UF’s Phi Beta Kappa Society Chapter.

In the 19th century, the Choctaw Nation passed a law to criminalize whooping, and many Choctaw citizens were prosecuted for this crime in the period between 1880 and 1906.  This talk considers the linguistic, historical, and anthropological meanings of whooping for Choctaw people and the forces that led to its eventual criminalization.