Black Local History along the Slash of the Im/Possible

Black Local History along the Slash of the Im/Possible
The question ‹Where are you from?› has typically linked whiteness to Europe and marked non-whites as perpetual outsiders. Black Local History along the Slash of the Im/Possible examines omissions and gaps in Swiss archives and historiography, as it relates to black lives, and calls for critical fabulations as a method and practice of redress, to re-imagine what was, as well as what could be.

Digital Feminist Care Ethics

Assessing the Web of Archival Relationships

Digital Feminist Care Ethics
Feminist care ethics teach us that digitizing archival collections is just the first step in series of ongoing relationships. Research at two different digital community archives—the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) and the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP)—reveals that the impact of archives goes well beyond academic researchers, catalyzing profound emotional shifts in record creators, storytellers, community members, and future communities.
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