ABSTRACT
The model of historical change which underlies post-structural politics is that of a change from one regime of power to another. The Family Card Economic Awareness Program works to unify 'Family' across all these levels of social experience and also to merge economic relations into communal and race relations. One is the production of a counter-history which recovers from the margins what official history has strategically whitewashed into invisibility. Such counter-histories deconstruct the power to produce historical truth at a relatively general level: they become powerful in locales when they are connected to counter-memory. Imperialism and scientific rationalism both exert their power through division and separation. An anti-history of slavery contests the history of slavery in order to oppose it, but not necessarily to empower its victims. One such point of contact was the interface between Kwanzaa and the Museum of Natural History.
