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The Week Ahead: Community-Based Research and Partnerships

In the week ahead, we’ll focus on Community-Based Research and Partnerships.  Here’s an all-in-one recap of everything you’ll need for the week to come. Blogging: The main ‘action’ on the course is...

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Connecting across fields of memory

Dr. Vega’s words about making her research about “equity” and not inequality have resurfaced for me after looking through this week’s readings. For a while, my personal definition of research has...

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The materials for social justice and cultural struggle are everywhere.

This passage from “The Evolution of the Centro Library and Archives” by Nélida Pérez, I first thought, sounded paradoxical and somewhat deflated in light of the heroic liberatory political and social...

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Using the Archive to Highlight Subjugated Knowledges

When Hernandez states, “Though I was academically trained as a historian, it was my personal journey to New York that turned me into an archivist,” we get a sense that the archive embodies the process...

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Countering the Counter Archive and the Diverse Stories of El Barrio

Following the presentation and conversation with Pedro Juan Hernandez and Shakti Castro of the Centro de estudios puertoriqueños last Tuesday night, the conversations with students taking the course in...

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The Archives, Spock, and the Public

Hi JS and Edwin, [this  was originally  going to be a comment on J Scag's  post and Edwin's comment] You both brought up issues that I’ve been thinking about lately. One, we talked about more on...

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Centro in a Suitcase – Proposal from Amanda Matles, Sonia Sánchez, and Laurie...

“El Centro in a Suitcase” A toolkit for introducing East Harlem children to the community archives of El Centro. Amanda Matles, Sonia Sánchez, Laurie Hurson The Vignette: Imagine you are an eight year...

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