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Silences 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

Archives play a central role in shaping our perceptions of the past. It is vital that we ask critical questions about what a given archive may exclude.

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 ...

Introduction to Archival Research: Archival silences

Archival silences · Records not created · Records not preserved or collected · Bias in description.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

silences into the archives after the records are created. Nevertheless ... The newly created records may be biased or distorted through the processes ...

Archival Silences - Research in FSU Special Collections & Archives

Archival silences may result from documentation having never ... collection, or being represented from a biased perspective. Consider ...

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 - 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 ...

Archival Silences and Avenues to Address Them: A Literature Review

Defining characteristics include that archival power influences the creation of archival silences, archival silences are inevitable, and these ...

Archival Silences – Mary and Jeff Bell Library Blog

But some voices ring more loudly in the archives than others. The term archival silence describes a gap in the existing historical record. It is ...