Troubling Accounts of the Archives

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" Troubling Accounts of the Archives "
Caswell, Michelle

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	938526
Doc. No	:	LA4b18x1th
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Caswell, Michelle
Title & Author	:	Troubling Accounts of the Archives [Article]\ Caswell, Michelle
Title of Periodical	:	InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/2
Date	:	2019
Abstract	:	This article unravels on archival mystery by tracing the creation and archivization of a series of photographs staged by Sharanjit Singh Dhillonn, an Indian immigrant, in Oklahoma in the 1950s. The collection has been digitized and made accessible in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), a community archive that is using records to spark conversations about racism, assimilation, and resistance. The article argues that community archives can activate troubling records from the past in order to forge relationships of care and mutual responsibility with their communities now.