At the end of the term, with final exams just a few days away, I find myself feverishly writing. Conference papers. Dissertation chapters. An article for a forthcoming edited volume. This blog post. Even in the face of lots of grading in the next few days, I’m doing a lot of writing, and all of this writing has me thinking about the words I use and their power, specifically their power to erase. In my current project, I’m spending quite a bit of time writing about a group of immigrants who made their way onto the U.S. frontier during the Read more