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Title:

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

Publisher:

Litwin Books,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Ethnological archives--United States.
Ethnological archives--Canada.
Ethnology--United States--Archives.
Ethnology--Canada--Archives.
Archives--Social aspects--United States.
Archives--Social aspects--Canada.

Other Authors:

Daniel, Dominique.
Levi, Amalia S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / B©♭atrice 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.

Series:

Litwin Book Series on Archives, archivists and society ; number 6

ISBN:

1936117851 (acid-free paper)
9781936117857 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)869458573

LCCN:

2013050955

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)