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Archives and Social Justice Research

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This chapter describes archives as a valuable resource for social justice research. It begins by describing archives as they relate to social injustice and social justice. It then discusses five research papers on social injustice as examined using various kinds of archives. The chapter concludes with a discussion of methodological, historical, ethical, and interpretative issues in archive-based social justice research.

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Notes

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    Social categorizations constructed during apartheid used the term Colored as one of four main racial groups identified by law: Blacks, Whites, Colored, and Indians. Colored describes people of mixed racial/ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various tribes of Southern Africa.

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    See information on All Power to the People! exhibit at http://www.politicalgraphics.org/home.html

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    See http://www.politicalgraphics.org/cgi-bin/album.pl?album = 12courageous_voices

  4. 4.

    See https://www.politicalgraphics.org/exhibitions/annotations/outofthecloset.pdf

  5. 5.

    See https://www.politicalgraphics.org/pdf/PRISON%20NATION%20-Gallery%20Guide.pdf

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    Also see Lau (2013) on the Interference Archive and http://interferencearchive.org

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Opotow, S., Belmonte, K. (2016). Archives and Social Justice Research. In: Sabbagh, C., Schmitt, M. (eds) Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3216-0_24

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