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During the Fall 2019 semester several archivists, including Maggie McNeely at Brandeis, worked on the Archiving Student Activism Toolkit for Project STAND. The Toolkit, now live, is meant to be utilized by both student activists and archivists. The tool covers considerations and best practices for archivists. It also aims to empower student activists through an understanding of the many options […]
In the Fall of 2015 there was a direct action student protest known as #FordHall2015 (FH15), in which Black Brandeis University students convened in the Bernstein Marcus administrative building for what became a 13 day sit-in. The following year some members of that action, Queen White ‘16, Chari Calloway ‘20, and Wil Jones ‘18 along with Brandeis alumna Micha Broadnax […]
It is now widely acknowledged within the profession that archives largely reflect history from a white upper class privileged position. This reality is due to many factors including the lack of diversity in the profession and institutional practices that follow established patterns of systemic racism and classism. By creating the Initiative on Under-Represented Collections with a Focus on Students of […]
While the objective of the Brandeis Black Archives online archive is to create a platform which represents the university’s rich history of black, student of color, and marginalized peoples activism; it is our intention to do so in a way that recognizes the nuances, complexities, and layers typically missed by typical monolithic representation…