Component 2: Archive Rationale | HIST 107 Group Project

📋 What are you submitting today?

Only one person per group submits the Group Rationale. All students submit their own Individual Reflection. Choose your role below — it will show or hide the group section accordingly.

🖊️ Group Submitter

I am submitting the Group Rationale on behalf of our group, plus my own Individual Reflection. Only one person per group should choose this.

✍️ Individual Only

Someone else in my group is submitting the Group Rationale. I am only submitting my own Individual Reflection.

PART 1: Group Archive Rationale (750–1000 words)

⚠️ You are the group submitter. Write or paste the group's collaboratively written rationale here. Your group members are submitting their Individual Reflections separately. Make sure your group has coordinated on this content before submitting.

This rationale should explain:

Why your group chose these specific sources
Major themes and patterns across the archive
Questions of power, perspective, and missing voices
Connections to capitalism, empire, and labor
How your commodity compares to cotton (using Beckert)

Why did your group choose these sources? What do they reveal about your commodity?

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What major themes and patterns emerge across your archive?

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Whose perspectives are present in your sources? Whose voices are missing or marginalized?

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Consider: colonizers vs. colonized, owners vs. workers, men vs. women, etc.

How do your sources illuminate capitalism, empire, and globalization?

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How does your commodity compare to cotton in Beckert's Empire of Cotton?

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Reference specific concepts from Beckert: war capitalism, state power, labor systems, etc.

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PART 2: Individual Reflection Paragraph (150–250 words)

Your individual reflection should address:

How your specific lens shaped the archive
What your sources reveal that other lenses do not
What limits or silences remain from your perspective

How did your analytical lens shape what you contributed to the archive?

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What do your sources reveal that the other lenses don't capture?

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What limits or silences remain even within your lens?

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📝 Component 2: Archive Rationale

Student Information

📋 What are you submitting today?

PART 1: Group Archive Rationale (750–1000 words)

PART 2: Individual Reflection Paragraph (150–250 words)