Identity palimpsests : archiving ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada /

Identity palimpsests : archiving ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada / edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia S. Levi.

"Identity Palimpsests assesses the ways ethnic identities and other forms of belonging are affected by, and also affect, current practices in ethnic archiving. The book begins with an overview of the evolution of the way ethnic organizations and communities have collected, preserved and provide...

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Other Authors: Daniel, Dominique., Levi, Amalia S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sacramento, CA : Litwin Books, 2014.
Series:Series on archives, archivists and society ; no. 6.
Subjects:
Ethnological archives > United States.
Ethnological archives > Canada.
Ethnology > United States > Archives.
Ethnology > Canada > Archives.
Archives > Social aspects > United States.
Archives > Social aspects > Canada.
Simmons University authors. Bastian, Jeannette A.
Table of Contents:
  • From containing to shaping to performing ethnicity in archives / Dominique Daniel, Amalia S. Levi
  • Documenting communities through the lens of collective memory / Jeannette Bastian
  • Inventing new archival imaginaries : theoretical foundations for identity-based community archives / Michelle Caswell
  • Building ethnic archives in the U.S.A. and Canada since the 1960s / Mark Stolarik
  • Documenting departure : a reflection on the role of emigration research in the development of ethnic archives / Joel Wurl
  • Archiving 'from below' : preserving, problematizing and democratizing the collective memory of Portuguese Canadians / Raphael Costa, Emanuel da Silva, Gilberto Fernandes, Susana Miranda, Anna St. Onge
  • If we knew then what we know now : applying lessons from past eras of ethnic archiving collection development to contemporary practice / Rabia Gibbs
  • Language, identify and archives / Krisztina Laszlo
  • Respect, recognition, and reciprocity : the protocols for Native American archival materials / Jennifer R. O'Neal
  • No bottleneck here : the role of physical and cultural place, and the necessity of cooperation in Finnish-American archival collections / Kent Randell
  • Local and translocal belonging : the comparative case study of a Puerto Rican archives / Patricia Silver
  • The collaborative archive from the African diaspora : access and outreach / Béatrice Skokan, Yolanda Cooper, Jameatris Rimkus
  • 'The unshaven, ' 'the unwashed' and the 'closed society' : remembering Freedom Summer / Benjamin Alexander
  • Straight from the community? : Canada's community historical recognition program and the creation of digital archives / Greg Bak, Tina Mai Chen
  • 'You know you from Champaign-Urbana' : an ethnography of localized African-American archiving initiatives / Noah Lenstra
  • Documenting the Arab American experience : identity and community in the archival context / Andrew McBride, Elizabeth Skene
  • DigiBaeck, the digital archives of the Leo Baeck Institute, German-Jewish history online / Mollie D. Hazelton, Frank Mecklenburg
  • Hacking a museum : Asian American digital life as archive / Konrad Ng
  • Toward digital diasporas : the case of Somali youth / Anduin Wilhide, Mustafa Jumale
  • Migrant memories in the ephemeral digital age : the case of the Basque institutional diaspora in North America / Pedro Oiarzabal.

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