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Title Identity palimpsests : archiving ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada / edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia S. Levi
Published Sacramento, CA : Litwin Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 326 pages .)
Series Litwin Book Series on Archives, archivists and society ; number 6
Series on archives, archivists and society ; no. 6.
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 / Béatrice 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnological archives -- United States
Ethnological archives -- Canada
Ethnology -- United States -- Archives
Ethnology -- Canada States -- Archives
Archives -- Social aspects -- United States
Archives -- Social aspects -- Canada
73.46 interethnic relations (ethnology)
Archives -- Social aspects.
Ethnological archives.
Ethnology.
Canada.
United States.
Genre/Form Archives.
Form Electronic book
Author Daniel, Dominique
Levi, Amalia S
ISBN 1634000102
9781634000109