Community engaged scholarship in archival studies: documenting housing displacement and gentrification in a Latino community

Alcalá, Janet Ceja

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“…The BBRM’s definition of preservation is expansive and also includes supporting emerging museum, archival and public history professionals interested in pursuing careers concerned with supporting community memory work (Alcalá, 2019, p. 160). In addition to its curatorial functions, the BBRM also engages in outreach to local graduate programs educating students in these fields.…”

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Preserving the history of Birmingham Black Radio: a discussion of preservation, outreach and collaboration

Riter¹,

Friedman²,

McDade³

et al. 2021

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Purpose The Birmingham Black Radio Museum (BBRM) is a community museum and archives located in Birmingham, Alabama (USA) dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Black radio. The BBRM fulfills this mission through educational programming, providing access to physical and digital materials and supporting emerging curatorial professionals. Through a reflective analysis of the BBRM, the authors discuss the relationship between preservation, public programming and professional outreach, the partnerships that enable these functions and how conceptions of community responsibility have informed the organization’s management strategy. The BBRM provides a context for isolating the factors which inform the emergence of community memory institutions, the challenges associated with managing decentralized information environments and considers how mentorship can operate as a form of capacity building. An examination of the BBRM provides a view of one institution’s approach to engaging community partners and audiences in achieving its primary goal of documentary preservation. Design/methodology/approach This analysis is informed by historical, case study and autoethnographic methods. Emphasis is placed on examining BBRM’s historical origins, primary functions and community mandates. Specific attention is given to examining operations, resources and strategies. Commentary and discussion are grounded by the professional experiences of BBRM staff and collaborators. Findings The operations of the BBRM, and the experiences reported by BBRM staff, are similar to those documented by findings in the community archives and museums literatures. Community mandates and institutional identify have strongly informed the BBRM’s mandates, strategies for engaging the public and establishment of strategic partnerships. Originality/value This reflective analysis documents the operations of one specific community memory institution. Though the experiences documented in this paper are common to many community archives and museums, this study contributes an additional data point, further contributing to the body of evidence necessary to support a more nuanced understanding of the role and function of community memory institutions and their management.

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Preserving the history of Birmingham Black Radio: a discussion of preservation, outreach and collaboration

Riter¹,

Friedman²,

McDade³

et al. 2021

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Preserving History for the Persistent Legacy of Our School: A Youth-Led Participatory Heritage Project

Allen-Handy

Meloche

Brown³

et al. 2021

Preservation, Digital Technology &Amp; Culture

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This in-process project report describes a critical youth-led participatory heritage project that seeks to document, preserve, and make digitally accessible oral histories, archives, and artifacts of an urban, predominantly African American high school with a rich history and legacy. As a long-standing community institution, the narratives emerging from this high school are intricately connected with the larger story of the city of Philadelphia. This article uses an equity-based lens to demonstrate how youth-led participatory heritage can contribute to youth empowerment, critical consciousness development, and critical digital literacies. Implications for schools and communities experiencing gentrification, displacement, and community change are provided, including how participatory heritage with youth can utilize collaborative, asset-based efforts to foster change that allows youth and communities to have agency over their individual and collective stories, community history and legacy, and their futures.

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Community engaged scholarship in archival studies: documenting housing displacement and gentrification in a Latino community

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Preserving the history of Birmingham Black Radio: a discussion of preservation, outreach and collaboration

Preserving the history of Birmingham Black Radio: a discussion of preservation, outreach and collaboration

Preserving History for the Persistent Legacy of Our School: A Youth-Led Participatory Heritage Project

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