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Silence and Bias in Archives


Silences and bias in archives - Visiting Special Collections

Silences and bias in archives. Archival silences are created when people, communities, groups, and movements do not have their stories selected ...

Gaps and Silences in the Archives: Critical Use ... - Research Guides

Archival silences are the voices missing from the collections. These gaps in the historical record preserved by archives are real, and are not ...

Selection, Bias, & Silences - Researching with Archival & Special ...

An individual or group has decided what will be kept, how it will be described, and how it will be made accessible and to whom.

Silence and Bias in Archives - Archives and Special Collections

Cataloging and archival description can also contribute to silencing under-documented groups in archives. Decisions on terminology can directly ...

The Problem of Archival Silences | Facing History & Ourselves

The absence of these voices and insights is what is described as an “archival silence”—defined as “the unintentional or purposeful absence or ...

Archival Shouting – AHA - American Historical Association

“Archival silence” has become a shorthand for absences in archival records. It also refers to biases in collections, collecting habits, and ...

Exploring Ephemerality, Biases, and Silences in Archives

To fully understand archives and archival research, students must grapple with these big-picture concerns of gaps and silences in the documentary record. This ...

Grappling with archival silences: Decolonizing knowledges, Nov. 17

These biases often silence the voices of large groups of people. Researchers interested in American slavery, for example, will find that the ...

Introduction to Archival Research: Archival silences

Archival silences · Records that were lost or destroyed by fire or flood damage · A collection of personal letters that represents one side of a ...

Gaps and Silences in Archives - A Guide to Archival Research

Archival silences are the voices missing from the collections. These gaps in the historical record preserved by archives are real, and are not accidental.

Archival Silence and Historical Bias – Features – Paul Mellon Centre

An archival repository that gives a fairly accurate view of the historiography of British art but only a partial glimpse into the complexities, global scope, ...

2. Silences & Biases - Google Sites

Not all voices, historic events, communities, or memories are documented within the archival records kept in repositories. These gaps in representation within ...

Where is the Other Half of the Story?: Erasures and Silences in the ...

Far from being neutral, archives reflect the biases, ideologies, and power structures of their creators. We know that gaps, absences, and ...

The Violence of a Thousand Paper Cuts: Recognising Bias in the ...

In this conversation between keondra bills freemyn and Rianna Walcott they discuss the importance of recognising bias within both archival institutions.

Introduction to Primary Source Research: Archival Silences

What is meant by archival silences? I mean the people or groups whose voices are missing from the archives. Voices that are not necessarily ...

Archival Silences - Research in FSU Special Collections & Archives

Archival silences may result from documentation having never existed in the first place, being left out of a collection, ...

Archival Silences - Princeton Humanities Council

The Archival Silences Working Group convened in Fall 2019 with the goal of fostering a campus-wide conversation about the limits, freedoms, frustrations, and ...

Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences ... - Archivaria

RÉSUMÉ Ce texte examine les dynamiques du silence aux archives. Il ... The newly created records may be biased or distorted through the processes ...

Identifying and Addressing Archival Silences in Your Research

In this tutorial, we will provide you with an overview of what archival silences are, some underlying reasons on why they exist, and how you ...

Archival Silences – Mary and Jeff Bell Library Blog

The term archival silence describes a gap in the existing historical record. ... biases to the things we do. As a result, the records created by ...