ERIC Number: EJ1433366
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jul
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-1531-2542
EISSN: EISSN-1530-7131
Re-membering Blackness: Digital Archives, Collective Memory, and a University's Black History
Colleen Farry
portal: Libraries and the Academy, v24 n3 p435-455 2024
The Re-membering Blackness Digital Archive at the University of Scranton shares the university's racial story as part of a campus-wide initiative devoted to reconciliation and collective memory. By bringing together archival records on Black history in a thematic digital collection, the project presents a corrective lens through which the university community transformed its understanding of the historical Black experience on campus and considered how this history reverberates in the present. The initiative contributes to a growing collection of institutional research projects on African American history and the legacies of slavery and racism in higher education. This article considers the metaphor of archives as memory within critical archival literature, and it examines the relationship between archives and collective memory in the context of the University of Scranton's initiative to recover Black memory.
Descriptors: Archives, Academic Libraries, African American History, Electronic Libraries, Racial Discrimination, College Environment, Recall (Psychology), Educational Change, Collectivism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Information Analyses
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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