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Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives

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Daniel, Dominique

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This paper examines the development of ethnic and immigrant archives in the United States since the 1960s. It focuses on the dramatic evolution of "ethnic archiving"—the processes and objectives involved in documenting the immigrant and ethnic experience—and shows how cultural minorities evolved from an object or theme of archival collections to active participants in the creation, appraisal, description, and use of their own archives. A number of factors made this evolution possible: a new political context increasingly responsive to minority rights and cultural diversity, rising interest in social history, and the influence of postmodernist thought on archival theory. New digital technologies have also facilitated the expression and archiving of ethnic voices.

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"Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives." The American Archivist 73, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 84-102.

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2010

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History
Arts
Humanities
Cultural heritage
Information storage and retrieval
Library science
Archives
Information professions
Preservation and recordkeeping

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http://hdl.handle.net/10323/2155

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