Archives, race, class and rage

Prescod, Colin

doi:10.1177/0306396816686278

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“…This project's results showed that only 21% of these resources were created by members of the Black community. This finding supports assertions, particularly Flinn's (2007) and Prescod's (2017). This finding hopefully may help repositories, the BGA included, be more aware of the provenance of resources, especially in regard to the Black community, in order to create more equally representative collections.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…(p. 79) In addition, HistoryMakers (2010) notes that collections relate largely to "slavery, the Civil Rights movement, music, sports, and entertainment" (as cited in Gibbs, 2012, p. 199). Prescod (2017) indicates that there is also a lack of "Black agency in the making of the record," where instead this history is crafted by mainstream society (p. 76).…”

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Representation of Black History in Archives: A Collection-Centered Quantitative Analysis of the Billups-Garth Archive

Mastley

2020

Open Information Science

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This pilot study presents a collection-centered quantitative analysis of Black history resources available at the Billups-Garth Archive in Columbus, Mississippi. The Archive’s inventory lists for its record series and control files for its manuscript collections were assessed in order to determine the percentage of extant Black history resources in relation to the collection’s total holdings. Relevant collections were then evaluated to determine their mediums, subjects, and provenance. The results showed a dearth of collections related to Black history and indicated that very few were created by the Black community. Results also showed that most relevant resources were made up of textual documents as well as documents relating to everyday life and education. Overall, this study demonstrates how collection analyses may be undertaken to identify collection biases and collection deficiencies, especially deficiencies in representing the histories of marginalized communities.

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Representation of Black History in Archives: A Collection-Centered Quantitative Analysis of the Billups-Garth Archive

Mastley

2020

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“…Colin Prescod has recently recognised the work that has been done by archivists and curators on Black cultural heritage, but makes a powerful argument for moving beyond including the Black experience to allowing Black agency in the making of the record. 50 Black community groups have registered anger and frustration about the opportunities that have been lost, the disappointment of hopes raised in 2007 of changes that would be made, collaborations that would develop, more genuinely inclusive policies that would be implemented. It is just as urgent to insist that Black Lives Matter in the wake of Grenfell as it was in 2007, 1807 or 1833.…”

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confidence: 99%

Doing reparatory history: bringing ‘race’ and slavery home

Hall¹

2018

Race & Class

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This article asks whether history writing can be reparatory. Opening with a discussion of the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 2007 and the national conversation that was created at that time, it goes on to reflect on contestations over memory and the significance of the emergence of reparations as a key term with which to think about the wrongs of the past and the possibilities of repair. It uses a discussion of the author's individual and collaborative historical work to argue for the importance of a different understanding of Britain's involvement in the slavery business and our responsibilities, as beneficiaries, of the gross inequalities associated with slavery and colonialism.

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“…It is a moment, however, that reaches out from the history of the enslaved to illuminate what Colin prescod has termed the 'radical histories of resistance to White supremacy, locally and globally'. 10 It is a moment opened up by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project.…”

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Reparative histories: tracing narratives of black resistance and white entitlement

Bergin¹,

Rupprecht²

2018

Race & Class

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the reinvigoration of forms of white supremacy in the uS and Europe has sharply delineated the connections between occluded racialised pasts and contemporary race politics in ways which make reparative history an urgent concern. this article argues that contemporary struggles over the politics of memorialisation telegraph more than a debate over contested histories. they are also signs of how the liberal narrative of 'trauma' and healing no longer suffices as a way of marginalising the history of radical black agency. Building on the research by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, the article focuses on the incendiary year of 1831 and on a moment of collision-between black resistance and white entitlement. It situates a hitherto overlooked aborted slave uprising in tortola, British Virgin Islands, within its multiple radical Caribbean, Atlantic and British contexts as a way of disrupting the distance between Cathy Bergin is a senior lecturer on the humanities programme at the university of Brighton. her research focuses on transnational black radical politics, particularly in respect of literary and cultural production.

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Archives, race, class and rage

Cited by 7 publications

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Representation of Black History in Archives: A Collection-Centered Quantitative Analysis of the Billups-Garth Archive

Representation of Black History in Archives: A Collection-Centered Quantitative Analysis of the Billups-Garth Archive

Doing reparatory history: bringing ‘race’ and slavery home

Reparative histories: tracing narratives of black resistance and white entitlement

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