Introducing critical race theory to archival discourse: Getting the conversation started

Are we committed to issues of race? Institutional integrity across intercollegiate athletics

“…Dunbar (2006) argues the utility of CRT provides researchers an analytical frame and toolset for examining the archival contents, intellectual organization, and organizational policy discourse, to raise a critical consciousness about sociocultural constructs such as race. The application of a CRT approach in this study is situated in two essential tenets.…”

“…In the context of intercollegiate athletics, governing directives can lead to enhancing substantive student-athlete development. Mission and visioning statements are rife across athletic programs of NCAA member institutions representing how organizations construct their external and internal identities (Dunbar, 2006). An organization’s external and internal identities are essential toward developing an understanding for an organization’s guiding commitments to stakeholders and audiences within the organization as well as those on the exterior of organizational operations.…”

“To go beyond”: towards a decolonial archival praxis

“…The English language archival studies literature tends to tell this 'origin' story about the field, which emphasizes the foundational connection between public governance, democratic accountability, national historiography, and the forging of a national or collective identity. Yet, crucially for our purposes, these national archives and the principles underpinning their management are always already colonial and imperial, always already white supremacist (Drake 2016; see also Dunbar 2006). By way of example, Haitian anthropologist and historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1995) complicates our understanding of this period in French history by bringing to our attention what professional archival 'origin' stories tend to obscure or elide-the colonial and imperial character of the pre and post-revolutionary French state and archives.…”

Awakening a dialogue: A critical race theory analysis of U. S. nature of science research from 1967 to 2013

“…CRT uses these counterstories and narratives to bring attention to the sometimes subtle, forms in which racism operates within institutions and structures. Dunbar () describes two ways that counterstories can be used that are also pertinent to the present study. Counterstories can be used, “to supplement or compliment a dominant culture narrative”, or “the development of competing or conflicting stories” (p. 115).…”