So excited to listen to @UrvashiChakrav and @bkadams on "Race in the Archives." #FolgerCRC #ShakeRace BKA: begins by asking us to have deeper conversations about the archive. What are the gaps in the archive? 1/pic.twitter.com/90DNCtlSe3
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UC: are archives a form of destruction? What do we think of these kinds of myths of origin as preserved in the archive? 11/
BKA: I like to think of the archive like archeology, the physical act of digging something up, out of its natural sedimented preservation is a form of destruction. What happens in our exhumation? 12/
BKA: Acknowledging the process of destruction that is part of your work, even your organizing of the texts, is an alteration, a change. This is a way to keep the focus on the multiple levels of people, places, materials involved in the archive. 13/
BKA: when we walk into libraries we think about who founded the library; how did the materials arrive here; what kinds of exploitation facilitated this acquisition; what are the labor conditions of the staff and other workers? 14/
BKA: Acknowledgement: how did this material come to be with you and the many hands through which it has traveled and the ethics of acquisition. 15/
BKA: asks can we collect without colonizing? UC: I'm thinking of the vast networks of labor. How much it has been invisiblized. We have to think of particular archives' relationship to colonialism and white supremacy. 16/
AD: Question about archive and acknowledgment and colonialism. Can archives in settler colonialist nations ever be places that can lead conversations about decolonizing? 17/
UC: thinking about the Folger as an emblem of white supremacy because of its founding ideology of preserving Anglo-Saxon culture in the US. 18/
UC: how do we consider the relationship between preservation and reparation? 19/
UC: can we think of the archive as fiction; resist attempts to construct the archive as a neutral edifice. The archive can operate as an authorizing fiction to elide what it contains and doesn't contain. And its governed by the fictions and strategies of race making. 20/
BKA: those who come to the archive don't look like the people who used these spaces in 1935. The future will be one where we can bring our full selves to these spaces. 21/
UC: the archive as a space to think with the past and each other rather than just a scholarly rite of passage. How might the space of the archive be transformed by thinking through CRT methods and interventions? 22/
Q&A: talking about digitization. It allows this work to be brought into the classroom. BKA: don't want to fetishize the physical texts so that only certain people get to work with it. The printed object contains subtleties that are lost through digitization. 23/
UC: digitization democratizes and yet it also can preserve hierarchies of power and access. 24/
UC: how do we contend with verifiability that forecloses certain kinds of inquiry. How we think through this problem of authenticity or facticity of data? We can think about how the archive is a political project. Again citing Habib's work. 25/
UC: we need to drill down into our assumptions of the authenticity of collections. We should also think of the accidents in the archive in terms of collections or oversights. 26/
BKA: if a decolonized archive is possible it must be done in concert with the communities that are colonized. An honest and collaborative conversation and action. We make this a democratic space for the public, not just famous scholars. 27/
UC: we need to think about the settler frameworks in which we are all implicated if we are to truly going to have decolonization beyond just metaphor and additive "diversity," model of adding one or two more scholars in the collection. 28/
BKA & UC: we must do whatever we can to demystify the process and to acknowledge the norms that are present that can exclude so that we can insure communal belonging. 29/29pic.twitter.com/niDMfd0Xbu
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