COLONIALISM IN THE ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

Symbolic Annihilation

The ways in which members of marginalized groups are absent, grossly underepresented, maligned, or trivialized by mainstream media.

Symbolic Annihilation

Has since been used by scholars in a range of fields to address a range of contexts, from mass media to museums to tours of historic sites.

Symbolic Annihilation

Absence, under-representation, maligning and trivialization of women by mainstream media. (1970s)

profound,, wide-ranging

Absence and misrepresentation have [a] and [a] implications

Social Impact

- encompassing inclusion or overcoming exclusion of individuals or groups in terms of poverty, education, race, or disability and may also include issues of health, community safety, employment and education.

absence ,, misrepresentation

In archival studies, it is used to denote how members of marginalized communities feel regarding the [a] or [a] of their communities in archival collection policies, in descriptive tools and/or in collections themselves.

Community Archives

Serve as powerful forces against symbolic annihilation by collecting a more inclusive historical record;

language

Community archives uses [a] to emic to communities to describe those records

preservation and access policies

Community archives create [a] and [a a] that reflect community values

grassroots alternatives

Community archives are framed as [a a] to mainstream repositories through which communities can make collective decisions about what is of enduring value to them, shape collective memory of their own pasts, and control the means through which stories about their past are constructed.

what is of enduring value to them, shape collective memory of their own pasts, and control the means

Community archives are framed as grassroots alternatives to mainstream repositories through which communities can make collective decisions about [a, a, and a] through which stories about their past are constructed.