The defense of “Anglo-Saxon”, the 1619 Project pushback, and the SAA petition all feel like different aspects of the same phenomenon.
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Replying to @dorothyk98
The Society of American Archivists’ Nominating Committee put forward a slate of two social justice oriented candidates for President, and a group unhappy with those choices added a third candidate to the ballot via a never-before-used bylaw.
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Replying to @john_overholt @dorothyk98
This is a statement by one of the original candidates. https://toxicarchivist.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/white-like-me/ …
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Replying to @mckellogs @dorothyk98
There are many asking the same question. I am not an SAA member, but it’s clear that there’s a profound split between (mostly) older members who see neutrality as a professional value and those who want to change its organizational culture.
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This comes on the heels of SAA’s journal publishing a very bad (both in its quality and in its opinions) article from an old-guard standard bearer. http://eiratansey.com/2019/08/01/peer-review-for-archivists-or-wtf-is-going-on-with-this-saa-pre-print/ …
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Just wow wow wow.
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