On April 18-24, 1955, delegates from 29 nations from Asia and Africa came together in Bandung, Indonesia for the Konferensi Asia-Afrika. This conference was a gathering of independent nations to discuss issues of sovereignty, racism and colonialism, and became known …
Research Revelations Episode 12.0 – Caring for Community While Telling The Story of Now – Part 2
In the second half of my conversation with Caitlin Quigley from Bread & Roses Community Fund, we discuss what research subjects are relevant to right now and the continued importance of documenting the stories of the most marginalized, unheard people. …
Research Revelations Episode 11.0 – Caring for Community while Telling the Story of Now – Part 1
Back in April, the coronavirus was the stop story because of how it was affecting folks far from the White House, and I was thinking about how the pandemic might be affecting organizers and their priorities. Would documenting the current …
Research Revelations Episode 10.0 – Legitimizing Existence, Power, and Enduring Value
Josue Hurtado, an archivist and research librarian, and Coordinator of Public Services at Temple Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), briefs us on the history and power of archives, what researchers of color can expect in traditional archives, and the …
Research Revelations Episode 7.0 – Online Research and Revelatory Rabbit Holes
The project director’s research has been curtailed by the pandemic, too, and this week, you can really hear her struggles in dealing with quarantine and how it compares to the …
Research Revelations Episode 6.0 – Collage
Where we look when the archival material is too painful, creating new archives, missing paper and beautiful spaces … this episode has a little bit of everything.
Sources mentioned in this episode:
The Negro Trailblazers of …
Research Revelations Episode 5.0 – Black Geographies and the Built Environment
In this episode, muthi reed talks architecture and city planning as an entryway into researching black geographies and migrations.
Sources mentioned in this episode:
Gooden, Mario. Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity. …