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political histories
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written histories that focus on political events.
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intellectual histories
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written histories that focus on the development of ideas
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social histories
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written histories that focus on everyday life experiences of various groups in the past.
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absent history
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any part of history that was not recorded or that is missing. not everything that happened in the past is accessible to us today because only some voices were documented and only some perspectives were recorded.
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family histories
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histories of individual families that are typically passed down through oral stories.
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national history
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a body of knowledge based on past events that influenced a country's development.
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cultural-group histories
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The history of each cultural group within a nation that includes, for example the history of where the group originated, why the people migrated, and how they came to develop and maintain their cultural traits.
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modernist identity
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identity grounded in the western tradition of scientific and political beliefs and assumptions - ex. the belief in external reality, democratic representation, liberation and independent subjects.
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grand narrative
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a unified history and view of humankind
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apartheid
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a policy that segregated people racially in south africa
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hidden histories
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the histories that are hidden from or forgotten by the mainstream representations of past events.
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ethnic histories
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the histories of ethnic groups
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racial histories
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the histories of nonmainstream racial groups.
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gender histories
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the histories of how cultural conventions of men and women are created, maintained, and/or altered
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sexual orientation histories
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the historical experiences of gays and lesbians.
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diaspora
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a massive migration often caused by war, famine, or persecution that results in the dispersal of a unified group.
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diasporic histories
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the histories of the ways in which international cultural groups were created through transnational migrations, slavery, religious crusades, or other historical forces
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colonial histories
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the histories that legitimate international invasions and annexations.
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contact hypothesis
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the notion that better communication between groups is facilitated simply by putting people together in the same place and allowing them to interact
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