Diverse Voices, Archival Silences, and Representation
Read / Listen / Watch
- Matika Wilbur & Adrienne Keene, Episode 1, “All My Relations & Indigenous Feminism,” All My Relations, 2019
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED Talk (2009)
- Ashley Farmer, “Archiving While Black,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2018
- Dominique Luster, “Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices,” TEDxPittsburgh (2018)
- Bergis Jules, “Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives,” 2016
Think
What factors contribute to archival silences, and what can be done to mitigate these silences? By archivists? By members of marginalized communities? Bergis Jules talks about how archives dictate “who is remembered and how they’re remembered,” and that “how [people are remembered] dictates who gets violence perpetrated against them.” What are some examples of this? How do these examples contribute to our understanding of how archives have been and could be used?
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