Archival amnesty: In search of Black American transitional and restorative justice. Sutherland, T. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, June, 2017.
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Archives as memory institutions have a collective mandate to document and preserve a national cultural heritage. Recently, American archives and archivists have come under fire for pervasive homogeneity - for privileging, preserving, and reproducing a history that is predominantly white and further silencing the voices and histories of marginalized peoples and communities. This paper argues that as such, archives participate in a continuing amnesty that prevents transitional and restorative justice for black Americans in the United States. Using the history of lynching in America as a backdrop, this article explores the records and counter-narratives archives need to embrace in order to support truth and reconciliation processes for black Americans in the age of #ArchivesForBlackLives.
@article{sutherland_archival_2017,
	title = {Archival amnesty: {In} search of {Black} {American} transitional and restorative justice},
	volume = {1},
	issn = {2572-1364},
	shorttitle = {Archival amnesty},
	url = {https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/42},
	doi = {10.24242/jclis.v1i2.42},
	abstract = {Archives as memory institutions have a collective mandate to document and preserve a national cultural heritage. Recently, American archives and archivists have come under fire for pervasive homogeneity - for privileging, preserving, and reproducing a history that is predominantly white and further silencing the voices and histories of marginalized peoples and communities. This paper argues that as such, archives participate in a continuing amnesty that prevents transitional and restorative justice for black Americans in the United States. Using the history of lynching in America as a backdrop, this article explores the records and counter-narratives archives need to embrace in order to support truth and reconciliation processes for black Americans in the age of \#ArchivesForBlackLives.},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2020-08-28},
	journal = {Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies},
	author = {Sutherland, Tonia},
	month = jun,
	year = {2017},
	keywords = {Read},
}

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