An autoethnographic chronicle: The evolution of self-documentation in African American community archives
Keeton, kYmberly
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Title
An autoethnographic chronicle: The evolution of self-documentation in African American community archives
Author(s)
Keeton, kYmberly
Issue Date
2022-10
Keyword(s)
African American
Community archives
Social issues
Access
Entrepreneurship
Archives
Information need
Community engagement
Information use
Self-ownership
Abstract
There is a lack of African American community archives in Black libraries, museums, and institutions of higher learning in the Midwest and South of the United States. To better understand why this was/is happening, my doctoral research explores how individuals in Black communities archiving their personal and communal history. It is informed by a mixed-methods approach including autoethnography, phenomenology, material probing, and creative research techniques. By extension, the methods are non-exhaustive to help examine issues affecting African American communities in Texas from a personal and communal perspective in that prohibit its participation, and responsibility for self-documenting and collecting its local narratives for inclusion in Black Spaces, i.e., Black Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (BGLAM). The results of the first stage of this study suggest the need for a researcher to be involved as a participant and documentarian in community archival work in the African American community.
Series/Report Name or Number
Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2022
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117962
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2022.1086
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Copyright 2022 kYmberly Keeton
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