Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: From Containing to Shaping to Performing Ethnicity in Archives -- Section One Theorizing Ethnicity In the 21st Century -- Documenting Communities Through the Lens of Collective Memory -- Inventing New Archival Imaginaries: Theoretical Foundations for Identity-Based Community Archives -- Section Two Setting the stage: Personal reflections -- Building Ethnic Archives in the United States and Canada since the 1960s -- Documenting Departure: A Reflection on the Role of Emigration Research in the Development of Ethnic Archives -- Section Three Toward Culturally Sensitive Archiving -- Archiving "From Below": Preserving, Problematizing and Democratizing the Collective Memory of Portuguese Canadians - the Portuguese Canadian History Project -- If We Knew Then What We Know Now: Applying Lessons from Past Eras of Ethnic Archiving Collection Development to Contemporary Practice -- Language, Identity and Archives -- Respect, Recognition, and Reciprocity: -- No Bottleneck Here: The Role of Physical and Cultural Place, and the Necessity of Cooperation in Finnish-American Archival Collections -- Local and Translocal Belonging: The Comparative Case Study of a Puerto Rican Archives -- The Collaborative Archive from the African Diaspora: Access and Outreach -- Section Four Creating and Re-Creating Identities -- "The Unshaven," "The Unwashed" and the "Closed Society": Re(re)membering Freedom Summer -- Straight from the Community? Canada's Community Historical Recognition Program and the Creation of Digital Archives -- 'You Know You From Champaign-Urbana': An Ethnography of Localized African-American Archiving Initiatives -- Documenting the Arab American Experience: Identity and Community in the Archival Context -- Section Five Archiving Ethnicity on the Web.