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Community-centered archives research is widely available online and we encourage participants to familiarize themselves with some of the literature and initiatives related to social justice, ethnic studies, and self-determination in archives. Below are a few resources that were shared with students and partners of the “Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Libraries” project from 2017 – 2019.

The full Summer 2019 TKTL cohort syllabus is online.

  • Cuellar, Jillian. “We Cannot be Represented, We can Represent Ourselves.” Rare Books and Manuscripts School, Iowa City, Iowa, Sheraton Iowa City Hotel, Friday June 23, 2017.
  • Gracen Brilmyer, designer. “Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives.” (PDF of poster). Content produced in Michelle Caswell’s “Archives, Records, and Memory” class, Fall 2016, UCLA.
  • Jorge Lopez-McKnight. “My Librarianship is Not for You.” In Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science, edited by Gina Schlesselman-Tarango. Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2017.
  • Michelle Caswell, Marika Cifor, and Mario H. Ramirez. “To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives.” The American Archivist: Spring/Summer 2016, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 56-81. https://doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081.79.1.56
  • Nicola Andrews. “Reflections on Resistance, Decolonization, and the Historical Trauma of Libraries and Academia” in The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship, eds. Karen P. Nicholson and Maura Seale.Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2018. https://osf.io/preprints/lissa/mva35/download
  • Randall Jimerson. “Embracing the Power of Archives” in Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2009.
  • Susan Needham and Karen Quintiliani. “Rethinking Local History through Collaboration: The Creation of the Cambodian Community History and Archive Project.” Collaborative Anthropologies 8, 2015-16: 1-20. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/649606/summary
  • Valerie Love and Marisol Ramos. “Identity and Inclusion in the Archives: Challenges of Documenting One’s Own Community.” In Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion, eds. Mary Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2014.
  • Vince Lee. “Like a Fish Out of Water, But Forging My Own Path.” In Where Are All The Librarians of Color? The Experiences of People of Color in Academia, eds. Rebecca Hankins and Miguel Juarez. Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2016.
  • Vivian Wong et al. “Archives (Re)Imagined Elsewhere: Asian American Community-based Organizations” In Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion, eds. Mary Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2014.