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The Neighborhood as Archive: The Casas de Cultura and Popular Libraries That Sustain the Memory of Cali's Barrios
In Cali, the memory of a barrio doesn't live in a museum: it lives in a library with a ceiling fan turning slowly, in a casa de cultura with plastic chairs stac
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