Recent gseis_interactions items

On the Travesty of whitewashing AntiRacist Education

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Kendi’s answer to the question of ‘How to be an Antiracist” is simple and succinct: to become an antiracist you must be an activist, advocating antiracist policies that engender racial equity and reduce comparable racial inequity. But the real solutions are more complex than that. He claims that the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it and then dismantle it, yet he abandons their descriptions for historically inaccurate narratives, and poorly supported autobiographical vignettes, and offers no way to identify racism, racialization, or how they manifest. The taxonomy he offers is disconnected from prevailing theories. It equates ‘anti-White racism’ and ‘Black racism’ to anti-Black racism and white supremacist violence, apprising equal validity to the terms for racial analysis. Racialized ‘whiteness’ is left unquestioned and omitted, and functionally maintains ‘race,’ ‘racisms’ and ‘antiracism,’ racialization, and their mystification.

“Indigenous in Me: Nemachtili in Freirean and Critical Indigenous Methodologies”

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I raise the questions: How does nemachtili encompass a Freirean and critical Indigenous methodology to address learning spaces? How is nemachtili articulated in an online learning space? This study engages nemachtili through a critical case study of an online course for Chicano youth as a research approach responsive to the racialized settings that Chicanos inhabit.

Games4Justice: Game Reports

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Four games were designed as part of an autoethnographic, teacher research study conducted from 2013-2017 on the implementation of play-, game-, and design-based teaching and assessment. The study was conducted at two urban, independent, K-12 day schools with fewer than 500 and 100 students, respectively, and supported as part of a certification program in Serious Game Design & Research. Pirate Oasis, a six-week ecological engagement, human development game, and the first developed for the Games for Social Justice Course (G4J). Friendship Is Magic, a Alternate Reality Game that was never played. #SaveOurGirls is a 3-hour forum game, simulation & workshop on combating human trafficking through public pedagogy. The experience is meant for 10-15 players and 30-60 audience members. Xplore LA, a location-based, geocaching, two-dimensional fighting game, designed by students to inspire young people to explore their local parks and other green- and play-spaces in...

Machine Credibility: How News Readers Evaluate Ai-generated Content

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The advent of AI-generated news as a novel form of content demands renewed attention toward modes of understanding reader perceptions. This research sought to answer: What evaluative criteria do readers use to perceive automated news content? To answer this, the study employed a two-phase survey methodology designed to elicit reader perceptions of AI-generated news. Phase 1 yielded 26 dynamic descriptor words and reflected broad social perceptions of AI. In Phase 2, a series of exploratory factor analyses (EFA) was conducted on results of a survey using the 26 items obtained in phase 1 to uncover underlying factors contributing to differences in how readers ranked articles based on the aforementioned descriptor words. In both phases, readers were informed at the beginning of the survey that the articles were generated using AI. The first set of exploratory factor analysis results were obtained using varimax rotation, which revealed five salient factors underlying the 26 descriptors...

Games4Justice: Course Design Report

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The facilitation of culture circles should be seen as part of this necessary expansion. Despite being an integral component of critical pedagogy, culture circles are frequently excluded from conversations about liberatory praxis. The following reports showcase the design and implementation of culture circle-based, human development, co-curricular programs for middle and high school students. These programs paired larger project for liberation, with play-, game-, and design-based pedagogical approaches, that cultivated value-creative, critical, local, and global citizenship.

Journal Statement on Palestine and Palestinian Liberation

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

At a time when we should be focused on establishing a heliocentric view of identity that sees us all fighting to protect life on this planet and whatever miracles we may find in our solar system, we continue to find our institutions of higher learning entrenched with the interests of warmongers, war criminals, and human rights violators. The UC has failed to call for a ceasefire or review its investments and support of Israel's war effort. The UC has spent over $30 billion towards genocide. No longer can we, as students and staff, stand behind our University contributing to the demolition of dozens of educational institutions in Palestine. Our work as educators is compromised when we stand by those who kill children, students, teachers, and administrators. It compromises our values when our research is used to whitewash a land, and erase a people’s cultural and historical heritages and histories from the face of the Earth. We cannot sit idly by while our University...

Empowering Online Teaching: A System Review of Online Instructors’ Professional Development in Higher Education

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper begins with the introduction of online education development in U.S. higher education. It examines the challenges of online learning, highlighting that online education often yields poorer outcomes, with lower completion rates and fewer educational learning outcomes. It identifies key determinants impacting online learning outcomes: student agency, the level of interaction within online courses, and digital literacy. The study emphasizes the importance of professional development (PD) for online instructors, especially in community colleges.

Critical pedagogy serves as the conceptual framework for the PD, advocating for educational systems that empower students and teachers to challenge oppressive structures and to contribute to educational equity. It stresses the need for instructors to be facilitators of learning, promoting active dialogue and collaborative knowledge construction. The paper discusses scaffolding strategies, promoting student agency, enhancing...

How might Apple, Freire, and hooks redesign the modern school as a site for social transformation?

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In Western society, schools have largely been designed to reproduce capitalist, patriarchal, white supremacist, colonial systems and values. Numerous structural elements—from redlining and modern segregation to scripted curricula and high-stakes testing—work to ensure that schools solidify existing social inequalities, produce good workers, and keep hegemonic powers in place. Shaped within these forces of reproduction, our schools are fraught with grave problems: racism and discrimination in every form, physical and emotional bullying, hunger and food insecurity, technology addiction, sexual harassment, teen suicide, conflicts and gang violence, drug use, mindless consumption, and ecological destruction. The modern school is a perfect microcosm and reflection of an unhealthy society.

How might we redesign schools such that they become sites of social transformation, rather than reproduction? How might we cultivate kind, ethical, empowered global citizens within our classrooms?...

Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Culture Circles

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary as a journal, the InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies editorial team opted to put forth a call on the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy, and culture circles. It’s hard not to continue to see why critical pedagogy, a praxis of nurturing critical consciousness toward humanization and society towards justice, continues to be an essential aspect of education in P-20 settings in a healthy democracy. This issue was an opportunity to showcase contemporary work and research inspired by the legacy of Paulo Freire. Humanizing education is a collective practice in partnership with students and communities, redresses structures that maintain social inequalities and hierarchies of human life, and repairs the harm they have inflicted (Freire, 1970; Paris & Alim, 2017). The call to humanize education is especially urgent given our ongoing crises in education: unceasing youth gun violence and school shootings (Schildkraut...

Editor's Note

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Editor's Note

Examining the Trump Presidency’s Impact on Latinx Undergraduate Students at an Elite 4-year University

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In recent years, the 45th President of the United States has used language that some regard as offensive towards the Latinx community. This study seeks to understand how Latinx college students during the Trump era have been affected by the political climate. Specifically, this investigation aims at (a) sharing how the Trump presidency has impacted Latinx students’ educational experience at a prestigious public university, including their mental health and well-being, and (b) comparing feelings/sentiments of the 2016 election to that of 2020. This study will be based upon surveys that have been distributed to Latinx undergraduate students. The survey also includes 2 open-ended questions that are designed to include student narratives. This report will show that Trump’s presidency has had a negative impact on Latinx students’ educational experiences and well-being; which in turn helps in understanding Latinx students’ perseverance in higher education.

Book Review: White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education

Tue, 9 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Book Review: White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of "Post-Racial" Higher Education

Book Review: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Fri, 5 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Book Review: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Theorizing Knowledge Organization as Translation Praxis

Fri, 3 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Drawing from concepts within the fields of information science and translation studies, I argue that the classification of knowledge is more powerful than the production of knowledge itself because it regulates its access; hence, it selectively divulges its existence. Where this power/knowledge resides and how it is distributed speak of a justice system. Therefore, if we are to collectively construct a catalog of human knowledge, we must allow for autochthonous ways of knowing, principally in its design, usage, and administration. In this interdisciplinary essay, I intend to spark discussion and further theorization about ways in which translation praxis can generate less transgressive ways of classifying knowledge, keenly keeping in mind the underrepresented cultures around the world. To this end, I submit that a theory of translation is sorely needed as part of a process of knowledge organization, specifically one capable of moving beyond logocentrism in acceptance...

A Review of Program Inquiry for Refugee Adult Education in the United States

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

According to the UN Refugee Agency's annual Global Trends Report, 68.5 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as of June 2018. This humanitarian crisis raises the question of responsibility on host countries to address the dire need for education access. Questions around how existing adult refugee educational programs should be evaluated remain relatively unexplored. The purpose of this review is to examine existing bodies of academic literature on how evaluation is applied in adult educational programming for refugees within community organizations and how programs utilize evaluation to improve their effectiveness in serving adult refugee populations in the United States. This literature review explores two questions: (1) how is evaluation structured in practice in nonformal educational programs for refugee young adults and adults in the United States? (2) What outcomes typically follow the implementation of evaluation within these programs (i.e....

Cultural Learning in Foreign Language Courses: An investigation into how college students make meaning of cultural information in the classroom

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For years researchers have shown the positive role that foreign language courses play in increasing the cultural knowledge and understanding of university students. However, at a time where internationalization is now at the forefront of nearly every major US university, foreign language courses are being cut and defunded at unprecedented levels. Clearly, the cultural benefits that foreign language courses provide are not meeting the standards necessary to be seen as key contributors to the goals of internationalization. Thus, the research presented in this paper is an initial student-centered investigation into the process of cultural learning within foreign language courses. By focusing on how students perceive of and understand the cultural information they are exposed to in the classroom. As a result, the research suggests important areas in which foreign language courses can improve the role they play in facilitating cultural learning, and hopefully, begin to receive the...

New Horizons for the Individual Research Consultation: Critical Hermeneutics and Habermas’ Goal of Intersubjective Agreement

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Critical hermeneutics is the theory of interpretation situated within an ethical trajectory that encourages an awareness of power differentials in communication. It emphasizes intersubjectivity, or that which is mutually agreed upon between two persons and has the potential to overcome the social injustices taking place within late-capitalism and infuse Individual Research Consultations (IRC) with mutually beneficial dialogue. As universities become more culturally diverse, librarians need to learn new ways to be inclusive and empower students to flourish as unique and individualized researchers. This article examines how Habermas' Intersubjective agreement attempts to end the isolation and warring of the structuralist and poststructuralist camps by taking the possibility of rational negotiation among responsible and autonomous individuals seriously. Habermas builds on Austin's speech act theory to develop the basic principles of common language and uses critical hermeneutics...

Book Review: Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality. By David G. García.

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000
Through in-depth archival research, David G. García offers a historical narrative on the educational inequalities in Oxnard, CA in between 1903 and 1974.

Issues in Community Archives Research

Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since their rise over half a century ago, community archives have filled in the gaps that mainstream archives have knowingly or unknowingly left, preserving the history of typically marginalized groups on their own terms. But it is only in the past decade or two that scholars have begun seriously contending with community archives, a timeline that perhaps not coincidentally overlaps with the archival profession’s increased focus on its own role in perpetuating power relations and systems of oppression. How has the so-called traditional archival community conceived of its relationship to both power and community archives, and what potential do community archives hold to help the archival field rectify its history of exclusion? Through a review of trends in the current literature on the topic, this paper will explore community archives as an alternative to traditional archival practice. Ultimately, this paper will argue for a reconceptualization of community archives...

Letter from the Editors

Fri, 9 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Letter from the Editors

Immigrant Family Legal Clinic: A Case of Integrated Student Supports in a Community School Context

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Immigrant Family Legal Clinic: A Case of Integrated Student Supports in a Community School Context

SEL in Context: Exploring the Relationship between School Changes and Social-Emotional Learning Trajectories in a Low-income, Urban School District

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
SEL in Context: Exploring the Relationship between School Changes and Social-Emotional Learning Trajectories in a Low-income, Urban School District

Inherent Biases and Complexities of the Use of Historical Digital Archives: Bibliometric Analysis in Digital Archives of Holocaust Victims

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Inherent Biases and Complexities of the Use of Historical Digital Archives: Bibliometric Analysis in Digital Archives of Holocaust Victims

Critical Pedagogies in Praxis: A Multiple Case Study with Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Co-constructing Community and Amplifying Undergraduate Student Agency through Dialogic Discourse

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Critical Pedagogies in Praxis: A Multiple Case Study with Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Co-constructing Community and Amplifying Undergraduate Student Agency through Dialogic Discourse

Pedagogy, Language Development and Assessment Practices in a Middle School Social Studies Dual-Language Classroom

Mon, 5 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Pedagogy, Language Development and Assessment Practices in a Middle School Social Studies Dual-Language Classroom

Cross-Cultural Mentoring: Cultural Awareness & Identity Empowerment

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000
Practices of mentoring programs often match mentors and mentees who are from similar backgrounds (i.e., same-culture mentoring). Both practices and studies on mentoring disregard possibilities in cross-cultural mentoring (CCM) where mentors or mentees are from different cultural (i.e., national or racial) backgrounds. This paper investigates students’ experiences in CCM in terms of the influence of mentors’/mentees’ cultural backgrounds on their identity development and cultural awareness. Five in-depth interviews were conducted with CCM mentors and mentees. Vignettes of CCM experiences are presented that reflect the impact and meaning of CCM for mentors and mentees. Types of CCM are identified and learning opportunities and challenges for students in CCM are revealed. This study challenges the status quo that only same-culture mentoring could benefit students since CCM is proven to empower the identity of mentors and mentees and cultivate their social skills including self-awareness...

Shooting Spitballs at Tanks: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Open Access

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The gold model of open access, in which an author/sponsoring institution must pay an Article Processing Charge (“APC”) is merely another instance of the neoliberalization of the university. However, this can be combatted by an expansion of the role of the library in the university, as well as wider agitation beyond it.

Race, Space, and the Built Pedagogical Environment

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In light of recent events of racialized violence across the United States, there has been renewed calls for schools to address issues of racism in head-on ways. In these efforts, teachers have engaged in critical reflection on their teaching practices and curricular materials. In doing so, however, they often overlook an important pedagogical tool for fostering critical conversations about race: the school space itself. In this article, the author presents spatial ethnographic data from a larger immersive study of racial pedagogies at a school in South Central Los Angeles. In order to address the overlooked value of the school space as pedagogue, the article focuses on the highly racialized hallway iconography present at the school. In particular, the article interrogates the racial politics embedded in the content and theorizes a means of understanding school design choices as a form of public pedagogy. Building on Torin Monahan’s theory of “built pedagogy,” the author puts...

The Persistence and Success of Latino Men in Community College

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Guided by a phenomenological approach, this qualitative study examines the resilience and cultural wealth of Latino men as they navigate the transfer process at a two-year community college. This study conducted four semi-structured interviews to highlight how, despite facing difficult circumstances, individual factors along with their aspirational and navigational capital positively impact Latino men in higher education. Ultimately, this study aims for four things (a) to add to the limited amount of research of Latino men in community college (b) to display the success of Latino men in higher education (c) to challenge deficit notions of Latino men in higher education and (d) to provide findings that will inform the community college sector of the Latino men transfer experience.

Anger as a Tool for Decolonization and Student Empowerment

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000
My research centers anger, the emotions that 12th grade students of color exhibit as a response to and in solidarity with an anti-capitalist, anti-racist curriculum. As a social studies instructor in an urban Title I public school, i analyzed scholar performance on cumulative and summative assessments, auto-ethnographic journal entries, and class discussions as qualitative data. The purpose of this research is to reconceptualize “anger” and “disruption” in the urban classroom through a decolonial theoretical lens grounded in the work of Franz Fanon, bell hooks, Na’im Akbar, and Antonia Darder. I place culturally relevant pedagogy in conversation with decolonial, anti-capitalist authors, in order to perceive differently, or even perhaps embrace, anger within the classroom as a pedagogical tool for decolonization. While i focused on race, racism, racial violence and the U.S. political system in the first semester of Government, in Economics we tackled the system of global capitalism....

Undergraduates mediating kids’ college knowledge

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

There is little research that explores young children’s understandings of college. Scholarship that focuses on developing college readiness among youth, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, notes that formation of college aspirations by fifth grade is critical. Utilizing fieldnotes from undergraduates who participated in after-school club at a local community school, this paper aims to answer the following question: How do undergraduate students mediate kids’ understandings of college and build on their college knowledge? The findings will better inform educators about how to better develop elementary aged children’s college readiness.

Promoting Student Discourse in a Linguistically Diverse Community-of-Learners Classroom

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000
This autoethnographic inquiry explored the effects of a positive classroom culture in a South Los Angeles high school by addressing the questions, “How might efforts to establish a community-of-learners classroom affect frequency of student discourse (both oral and written) and understanding of science content? Furthermore, how might the results of these efforts differ within the Emergent Bilingual and Non-Emergent Bilingual student populations?” The focus group consisted of three biology classes with a mixture of Emergent Bilingual (EB) students and Non-EB students; each class was composed of about 30% EB students whose primary language was most commonly Spanish. A multitude of techniques, such as community circles and consistent group work within heterogeneous EB and Non-EB groups, were utilized to create a community-of-learners in each class. Students participated in an independent weekly survey that examined their frequency of participation and confidence levels regarding...

A Qualitative Study on Queer College Student Desire

Fri, 1 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000
While much work in the realm of higher education research has concerned LGB(T)/queer identity development, little work has sought to explore the experiences of queer students with particular attention to their sexual and romantic habits and desires. Moreover, little to no attention has been paid to how the sexual and romantic desires of queer college students are shaped by normative discourses of race, sexuality, and gender. In this qualitative study, I have sought to elucidate the experiences of queer masculine college students to better understand how their sexual desires and performances intersect with systems of domination. The findings of this work suggest that oppressive systems—such as racism, patriarchy, and trans/queerphobia—are pervasive discourses in the sexual and romantic desires of queer, masculine college students. Such findings indicate that higher education practitioners should center discussions of racism and internalized queerphobia within educational interventions...

Editor's Note

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Editor's Note

Collective Conclusion: Collective Reflections on Critical Storytelling for Racial and Social Justice

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Collective Conclusion: Collective Reflections on Critical Storytelling for Racial and Social Justice

Book Review: Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Book Review: Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science

The price we pay

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
The price we pay

Leaving La Puente: A Critical Race Counterstory of Rural Chicana/Latina College Choice

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Leaving La Puente: A Critical Race Counterstory of Rural Chicana/Latina College Choice

Introduction: When the Magic Happens. Critical Race Storytelling

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Introduction: When the Magic Happens. Critical Race Storytelling

A review of daily conversations and practices at home: Exploring practices that promote early literacy in Spanish-speaking homes and home-school interactions

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Coming from a low-income heritage language family, like 17% of Latino families, entails important academic risk factors related to lower scores on reading tests. Considering that it is estimated that Latino students will represent 50% of the U.S. public schools’ population by 2050, their literacy learning must be supported adequately. The purpose of this literature review is to explore, from an ecocultural perspective, early literacy practices of low-income Spanish-speaking families and analyze the nature of literacy home-school interventions implemented for this group. The literature highlights non-traditional literacy practices that are strengths of the Latino families, such as a robust oral tradition focused on social cues, children’s engagement in written household chores, and the use of the Bible to pass values. Parents have mixed beliefs regarding literacy promotion: they do not feel prepared to support their children; thus, they support teachers as experts. Three types...

Liberation

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Liberation

Seen Without (in)Sight

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Seen Without (in)Sight

A Latina pursuing her medical dream (MD)

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
A Latina pursuing her medical dream (MD)

Book Review: Backlash: What happens when we talk honestly about racism in America

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Book Review: Backlash: What happens when we talk honestly about racism in America

What He Learned to Think He Earned

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
What He Learned to Think He Earned

“The weight we carry in our backpack is not the weight of our books, it’s the weight of our community!”: Latinas negotiating identity and multiple roles

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In the United States, out of 100 Latina/o elementary students, only 0.3 will complete a doctorate degree. Latinas/os/x as a fast-growing minority population in the United States continue to be underrepresented in higher education. The underrepresentation and limited empirical research on Latinas with advanced degrees calls for immediate attention to the inequities that exist within the Latina/o/x educational pipeline. Drawing from a Latina/o Critical Theory analysis and Chicana Feminist Epistemology standpoint these interviews explore the nuanced experiences of twelve Latinas in an Educational Leadership Doctoral Program. Life history interviews were used to reveal how the women 1) balance and negotiate their multiple racial, social class, and gender identities and roles, 2) their first-generation college student identity and guilt and 3) their identity and roles as motivation

The Hypervisibility and Disciplining of the Young Brown Mujer Body in School: A Counternarrative of Mother-Daughter-Sister Pedagogies for Survival and Resistance

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Talking Back, Talking Black

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Book Review: Talking Back, Talking Black

The Daily Dose: The End to Social Inequity

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Pop: A Critical Race Story of Racialized Violence in America

Wed, 1 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000
Pop: A Critical Race Story of Racialized Violence in America

Introduction: [mis]representation, [dis]memory, & [re]figuring the archival lens

Mon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000
An introduction to the special issue

Editor's Note

Wed, 3 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Editor's Note

Case Number 87-447: An Image Essay in 12 Parts

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000
With these twelve images I propose Janna Flessa's personal archive in relation to her public record as a generative space for creating a more critical historical vision regarding the function of the judicial system and the cultural contexts of mental illness, gender and race in the United States.

Cheryl Sim's Un jour, Un jour: Imagining potential futures in the fragmented archives of Expo67

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This article looks at the historical and national fantasies produced by the reactivation of archival records during the 50th anniversary celebrations of Expo67 in Montreal, Canada. By asking whose “memories” were put on display during the month-long festivities, this text addresses the many ways power, national identity and memories intertwine in archival institutions and highlights the dynamics and logics of archival encounters. To complicate this claim, this article then shifts to a close reading of Cheryl Sim’s video project Un jour, un jour, produced for the anniversary by Montreal’s contemporary art museum, in order to demonstrate that using records that have affective and personal value can help us imagine better collective futures.

Speculative classification: Tracing a disputed portrait between the archives of Malvina Hoffman and Sergey Merkurov

Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This paper presents a case study that illustrates how porous the bond is between two different epistemological regimes: the emphasis that is placed on visuality in art historical collections, and the act of labeling by the archive. I will touch upon collections representing two sculptors, Malvina Hoffman (1885–1966) and Sergey Merkurov (1881–1952), who both passed through the studio of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). In this case the slippage is the assigning of an incorrect or at least misleading keyword or ‘tag’ of one portrait in Hoffman’s archives at the Special Collections of the Getty Research Institute. Intended as part of The Races of Mankind project, in the archive the portrait is titled “Armenian Jew.” That initial title, as well as the current archival description and the lineage invoked through the title, have all been left open and in dispute. As such, the unresolved status of this portrait emerges as an anomaly in Hoffman’s archive that tests the limits of...

“Useful Information Turned into Something Useless”: Archival Silences, Imagined Records, and Suspicion of Mediated Information in the JFK Assassination Collection

Wed, 6 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The controversies, beliefs, and arguments surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 are classics in the canon of conspiracy theories. In October and November 2017, a large cache of documents was declassified and made available to the public through the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) website. A small community of researchers coalesced soon after on reddit.com. When these users encounter silences, they often react to them with a certain level of suspicion towards NARA, its archivists, or the originating institution. I call this suspicion of mediated information. It is entangled with, and comes about as a result of, the notoriety and contested nature of the JFK assassination and its aftermath, the strength of the impossible archival imaginary and the imagined records associated with the JFK Assassination collection, and the nature of the archival silences in the online JFK Assassination Collection. Archivists,...

Troubling Accounts of the Archives

Tue, 5 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Logical Horses: Or Several Historical, Aesthetic, Allegorical, and Mythical Vignettes

Mon, 4 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000
Logical Horses: Or Several Historical, Aesthetic, Allegorical, and Mythical Vignettes is a multi-tiered essay that weaves historical accounts in relation to storytelling, science fiction, and visual culture. The various methodologies detail instances of categorization within aesthetic discourse while also narrating absence––how exclusion/inclusion as polarities create conflicting histories. The essay jumps historical time periods––a problem I attempt to navigate by focusing on particular instances and cases that relate together the "cacophony" of history, time and aesthetics (using the concept of "cacophony" in line with Jodi Byrd’s argumentation in The Transit of Empire). The essay was edited by 6 participants and colleagues, in order to treat their art, writing and work as integral to the narratives established for the service of my writing. The essay begins with a vignette on the Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, establishing a thread...

Spherical Memory: Shaping Immersive Narratives From Personal Media Collections

Mon, 4 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This spherical video project expands on visual themes and materials from the author’s dissertation project, In Camera: a Video Practice of Living, Learning and Connecting, that took the form of a feature length essay film composed specifically for exhibition in IMAX. That project mined and externalized a personal and professional video archive spanning 19-years and explored the relationship between mediation, body and memory. The architectural scale and nature of the giant screen IMAX experience lent itself to a visual composition marked by multichannel simultaneity and multi layered collage and nesting. The goal of this project is an experimental translation of that visual experience into the intimate yet expansive space of spherical, or VR, video. As immersive video authoring practices become more accessible, they present interesting opportunities for organizing, exploring, narrativizing and sharing personal media collections. The author aims to explore these new...

"A LOUD response to Zero Tolerance"

Fri, 1 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The 45^th administration’s Zero Tolerance policy at the southern U.S. border has resulted in the systemic criminalization of refugee asylum seekers.[1] The stories of horrific child abuse have been revealed by the tireless efforts of journalists, public leaders, whistleblowers, and activists. This paper takes a look at LOUD, a Latinx-lead grassroots activist group created by entertainment professionals in response to this state sponsored violence. It analyzes the ways in which the group has used social media and digital tools in the course of their activities, the records they are (co-) creating, and the archival needs that these have revealed. Finally, this paper thinks through the group’s needs for an optimal digital data collection and records management system and the ways in which archivists trained in human rights might be key allies in their efforts. My hope is that this article sheds light on the strategic collaboration between artists...

Collecting Contested Identities: The ambiguity of national culture in the Israeli Digital National Collection

Fri, 1 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Israeli National Library of Israel and Ministry of Heritage, recently commissioned a digitization project that would create a central digital repository of Israeli Culture. This sizeable contribution to cultural preservation Israel, raises the specter of past exclusions of marginalized communities. Yet an analysis of the project’s appraisal decisions and the descriptions made of its mission by both the Digital National Collection and the Ministry of Heritage, demonstrates that not all communities haunted by ghosts of a traumatic past are treated equally by the Digital National Collection. While some communities, such as non-European Jews were foregrounded to correct some of the past deficiencies, others such as Palestinians remain disenfranchised.

Representation, Affect, and the Archives: A Shrine to Lon Chaney

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
This paper reflects on the experience of creating a Lon Chaney shrine based on a fan’s detailed scrapbook. The shrine was my final assignment for a course that required students to make art based on archival materials. I explore how affect is an integral part of the archival research process while also making connections between affect, representation, and memory’s relationship to power in the archives.

Doling out Colonialism: Refiguring Archival Memory of Settler Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands

Tue, 1 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000
In 1893, a group of primarily American insurgents overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i and Queen Liliuokalani with support from the United States navy. This marked a turning point in a long process of settler colonialism, after which Sanford B. Dole led the Republic of Hawai’i and advocated for annexation as an American territory. The Dole Family Papers archive at the Huntington Library contains numerous resources relating to the overthrow and the events leading up to and following it. The resources’ positionality within the framework of family archive and scholarly institution elides their potential for evidencing historic injustices and raising awareness of the issues Native Hawaiians have and continue to face. This essay will utilize frameworks for decolonizing archives and identify ways of re-figuring the Dole Family Papers in a way that would disrupt hegemonic understandings of Hawai’i and support a deeper understanding of settler colonialism’s impact on Native Hawaiians.

Ref/lecciones: lessons for my hijo and other children of Indigenous immigrants

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This essay is an autohistoria, an autohistory (Anzaldúa, 1999), in which I share my experiencesand understandings of being Maya and an immigrant in the United States and the discriminationthat other indigenous people like me experience from Latin Americans and Latinxs One purposeof autohistorias is to speak from lived experience and create theories that help us understandourselves and those like us. I write this essay to my son and the many other children in theUnited States who are born to Indigenous immigrant parents. One purpose for sharing myhistorias is to heal from intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism (Brave Heart, 2000). Itis my responsibility to share such stories in order to provide lessons and roadmaps for my son,other children of Indigenous immigrants, and future generations (Brayboy, 2005; Vizenor, 2008).I structure this paper to reflect the spiral (Grande, San Pedro, & Windchief, 2015) ways ofsharing, learning, and storytelling that are often absent...

Paul Kwiatkowski’s And Every Day Was Overcast and Redefining Young Adult Literature

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This paper seeks to reframe what is considered to be legitimate sexual content for teens and, by extension, to redefine the boundaries of what is considered to be Young Adult Literature. Using And Every Day Was Overcast, a semi-autobiographical illustrated novel written by Paul Kwiatkowski, as an example of a book that captures the lived-experience of teens, yet has been deemed unsuitable for a teen readership, the author argues that conventional definitions of Young Adult Literature are too restrictive, reinforce problematic cultural ideals, and limit the reading experiences of teens. This paper acknowledges that librarians have a place in the line of production and distribution of books and contribute to the legitimization of content and knowledge, both accepted and controversial. Scholars such as Jeanie Austin (2016) have pushed for a centering of library practice on the lived-experience of teens, which recognizes teens as experts on their own lives and...

The Role of Faculty and Peer Interactions in Supporting Humanities Students’ Persistence and Post-Graduation Aspirations: A Case Study

Fri, 4 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This study examines the experiences of undergraduate humanities students in the context of increasing social and educational emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and pre-professional areas of study (e.g., business administration, management, nursing). More specifically this article explores the ways in which humanities students’ interactions with departmental faculty members and peers support their persistence in their majors as well as their post-graduation goals. The persistence and post-graduation goals of humanities students is seen as particularly important given the deprioritization of the humanities by higher education institutions in recent decades as well as the questioned relevance of humanities education to post-graduation employment. Findings obtained from in-depth interviews as well as participant observation focus on the role of faculty accessibility, students’ sharing of information with one another, and students’ bonding over...

Archival Consent

Wed, 4 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The idealized value of “open access” to information in traditional Western archives is grounded in a right to property based in a racially and gender biased jurisprudence, and thus legal arguments for “open access” replicate those same privileges and harms. Rather than rely on legal frameworks for decision-making around access and use, this paper argues that adopting consent-based models of self-determination would shift the paradigm of archival policies and practices around use and access from one based on individual property rights to one based on relationships, autonomy, and prioritization of record creators and subjects. To deconstruct these systems of privilege and actively bring forth the voices of non-homogeneous archival subjects will require not just advocating for small reforms, but for entirely new ways of thinking about and doing our work. This paper uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to question Western jurisprudence and deconstruct the assumed neutrality of Intellectual...

(Co) creating nuevas teorias in educational leadership: Introduction to a “del corazón (from the heart) leadership model

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000
This paper introduces a leadership model developed by seven Latina mothers that participated in a parent initiated group A "del corazon (from the heart) leadership model consists of 5 elements that are rooted in love, care, respect, and dignity. This leadership model provides a nueva teoria within educational leadership that is inclusive of Latina mother leaders and, as a result, provides a transformative approach to leadership and social justice.

From Invisible to Visible: Documenting the Voices and Resilience of Central American Students in U.S. Schools

Thu, 1 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Historically, scholars have researched and discussed Central Americans in fields such as sociology, migration studies, and anthropology. However, there is a limited amount of literature in the field of education and more so in higher education, that addresses the unique experiences of Central Americans in the U.S. educational system (Torres, 2004). As an part of a larger study, this paper documents and analyzes the testimonios of thirty-five first and second generation Central American youth who have attended high school and college in the U.S. By applying a Critical Race Theory (CRT) analysis (in conjunction with other frameworks) to the testimonios of the thirty-five youth, we find that amidst severe class, race, and gender discrimination in schools, the youth are able to be extremely resilient. Through their testimonios, we also argue that it is important for education systems to pay closer to attention to the heterogeneity of the Latinx population...

Editor's Note

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000
Winter 2018 Editor's Note

I could work really hard but at the end of the day I still have to handle: How a Diversity Scholars Program Retained and Changed the way Chicanx/Latinx Students Viewed Themselves Beyond College

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This study contributes to research that aims to document the impact college can have on students during and after participating in a purposeful college retention program. This paper will provide a background on the demographics of the state, the demographics of the institutions along with the description of the Diversity Scholars Program as it stands within the institution to provide context to the study. A qualitative approach was utilized to articulate the causal impact of the DSP in relation to the change in students’ attitudes, values, and identities. The findings are analyzed under four common themes, Making the PWI Theirs to Claim, Ethnic Studies as a Minor/Major, “Somos Como Uña y Tierra”: Friendships Established and Career and Graduate Choice.
In the following sections, I illustrate the ways that Chicanx/Latinx DSP alumni spoke about the impact of the ethnic studies course. I focus on the ten students’ narratives about...

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. A Book Review.

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000
This article reviews the book written by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, titled Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are.

Sex Media

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000
Attitudes towards sexuality and sexual practices have evolved dramatically with the proliferation of technologies like dating apps, smart sex toys and virtual reality (VR), and relationships between technology and the body have become more complex. Porn is now mainstream, the sex tech industry is buzzing and sex cultures are intertwined with new media practices more strongly than ever before. Feona Attwood's Sex Media addresses these issues from a humanistic, rather than behavioral, perspective, offering a broad, but useful, introduction to the study of gender, media and sexuality.

Best Practices in Teaching Underserved College Student Populations

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

College demographics are becoming more diverse. However, services for underserved populations are still needed on campus. As faculty work with diverse populations, identifying and implementing best practices for these student populations will assist faculty in meeting the unique needs and circumstances of the students, and should also help in retention overall.

Discovering Pride and Enthusiasm at a Dual Immersion School

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In California, dual immersion programs are increasing. Knowing more than one language is a valuable skill for all students. In order for educators to support students in developing their multilingual abilities it is important that we have constant reflection about our teaching pedagogy and try multiple strategies to engage students. Through this inquiry, my hope was to inspire enthusiasm and pride among students in a dual language immersion program who demonstrated a resistance to learning Spanish. To address the issue of resistance, I created a unit of study around the value of bilingualism. The unit focused on valuing knowing more than one language, the history of Spanish in California, higher education, the cognitive benefits of being multilingual, and how multilingual individuals can help their community. The theories that informed my study were sociocultural theory, culturally relevant pedagogy, and community cultural wealth. My main data collection strategies included...

Rough All Over: Processing Trauma and Gaining Empathy through Journaling

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

My students live in a high crime community and many have experienced frequent and re-occurring trauma. Drive-bys, violence at home, gang warfare, drug and alcohol experimentation, jail time, deaths in the family, etc., are experiences that my students face throughout their lifetimes; their lives are “rough all over.” When my students walk through the threshold of my classroom, they not only carry the weight of these experiences with them, but they also reproduce negative and destructive interactions with one another because they haven’t often experienced a world of safety and empathy. Drawing from Social Emotional Learning, CPTSD research, and Dutro’s Writing Wounded, I proposed that if students could write to one another in an anonymous journal for an extended period of time, they would be able to feel relief from expressing their traumas--starting the processing cycle--and that they could also learn to support one another empathetically. This would enable students to participate...

U.S. Central Americans: reconstructing memories, struggles, and communities of resistance

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance is a critical anthology focusing on the narratives, experiences, and complexities of the Central American diaspora. Historically, scholarly work has addressed Central Americans through the eyes of “outsiders”, trauma, war, and violence; while this anthology highlights those very real and traumatic histories, it also centralizes the histories of Central American resilience and resistance. At a time when Central American youth are migrating to the U.S. alone and the presidential administration sees Central American youth and their families as bargaining chips in immigration policy, this anthology presents us with a critical examination of the U.S. interventions that have propelled migration to the U.S. Within a U.S. context, the contributing authors examine questions of identity, cultural production, gendered experiences, and transnationalism. Although the anthology is not grounded...

Book review about Christopher G. Brinton, Mung Chiang (2016): The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our Lives

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Networks are everywhere, they are the essentials of our lives. The main questions are, how they work and why it is necessary to understand them. These are the initial remarks in Christopher G. Brinton and Mung Chiang’s brand new book. Christopher G. Brinton is the Head of Advanced Research at Zoomi Inc., where he works on big-data analytics, social learning networks, and personalized learning. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Mung Chiang is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Princeton, where he also serves as chairman of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council and director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. In their new book they try to show the most important six principles that connect people’s lives. The main purpose of this book, beside entertainment and being a popular science book, is to be a basis for a network introductory course in college or high school.

Book Review: Critical race spatial analysis: Mapping to understand and address educational inequity

Mon, 1 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Researchers who produce social-justice scholarship often situate their studies within frameworks that examine the nexus of race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, and history. Across disciplines, such scholars will use the tools of Critical Race Theory to analyze how various social systems in the U.S. legitimize oppressive structures as a strategy for upholding white supremacy. In the field of Education, Critical Race scholarship is vibrantly expanding as it continues to interrogate how racialized educational inequities are created and sustained both temporally and socially. However, CRT scholars in Education have yet to systematically examine the intersections of race, power, and privilege while interrogating geographies that perpetuate inequities within various educational settings.
The editors of Critical Race Spatial Analysis: Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity respond to this gap as they offer...

The datafication of transparency work: A report from Los Angeles. Proceedings for the Interactions Symposium on Big Data.

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Open government data answers cities' need for new capital resources in a post-recession context and addresses a self-conscious concern about the lagging technological modernization of public institutions. This understanding promotes data-centric management strategies and encourages a mechanistic understanding of how to solve city problems; it leads to new data hybrids born out of data-sharing partnerships between government and the private sector. This proceeding focuses specifically on how, through open data work, staff view their records as administrative and commercial assets and fonts of innovation that improve private and public sector services. Some employees see city records as a source of easy capital, whether cost-saving efficiencies internally or innovation by the private sector. Others see open data as a solution for managing outsized, complex city problems.

A Critical Dialogue: Faculty of Color in Library and Information Science

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000
Using a social justice framework, we discuss our experiences as faculty members of color working in Library and Information Science (LIS). We present our educational trajectories as well as our professional engagement with teaching, research, and service. This piece contributes to the growing literature on diversity in LIS by articulating African American and Latina perspectives of academia, which are underrepresented demographics in LIS and more generally in higher education in the United States.

Language, Learning, and Literacy: Understanding the Social Linguistic Context of African-American Students as a Value in Library Services to Diverse Children in the United States

Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This paper considers the impact of language on literacy and learning within the contexts of linguistic theory, language acquisition theory, and social cognition as having a causal relationship with low achievement in reading, writing, and speaking Standard American English. In expanding the concept of literacy, this paper is premised on the notion that African-Americans, who exhibit difficulty learning to read, write, and speak Standard American English, qualify as English Language Learners in the United States. As such, these individuals are entitled to the same considerations as other English Language Learners. Drawing on the 1996 Oakland Resolution on Ebonics and tracing the events that followed its passing, this research aims to provide librarians and library and information science (LIS) educators a contextual framework of African-American students that will be useful in building the unique skills, knowledge, and abilities that today’s librarians need – if they are to...

Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System. By Tina Lee. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 245. $25.00 (paperback).

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000
Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System. By Tina Lee. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 245. $25.00 (paperback).

Editor's Note Winter 2017

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000
Editor's Note Winter 2017

Track Changes: a literary history of the word processor

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G., Track Changes: a literary history of the word processor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-674-41707-6

Listening for What is Being Asked: Understanding LGBT* Students Interactions with Student Affairs Professionals

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This article explores the findings of a qualitative study conducted to better understand how students who identify as members of the LGBT* community and as people of color describe the ways in which student affairs professionals can meet their needs for persistence through college. This study also sought to assess how the students’ perception of the race, gender identity, and sexual orientation of the student affairs professionals impacted the degree to which the students felt their needs were being met. Using a hypothesis coding structure, the researcher explored whether students would describe their needs being met through practices of transgressive teaching, a style of engaged pedagogy described in the seminal text Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks. This article will also make recommendations for future research and for student affairs practice.

Microaggressions, Marginality, and Mediation at the Intersections: Experiences of Black Fat Women in Academia

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This study bridges scholarship on the topic of racial microaggressions and conceptions of body size in relation to gender by focusing on the lived experiences of Black fat women as they navigate academic settings. Previous literature on body size rarely accounts for how other social identities such as race, class, ability, and sexuality impact the particular manifestations of discrimination that is experienced. Further, literature on the experiences of marginalization due to body size primarily focuses on perceptions of health and beauty. Informed by Critical Race Theory, Black Feminism, and Fat Studies the narratives of three Black women who have completed their bachelor’s degree were captured through counterstorytelling, a methodology born out of Critical Race Theory to purposefully center the experiences of People of Color and directly challenge dominant and oppressive ideologies. This study presents the possibilities of how this reality represents a necessary facet of...

Using routines to improve diversity in higher education institutions

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The author conducted a literature review pertaining to the use of organizational routines, organizational learning, and organizational diversity in an attempt to concisely depict the intersection of these research topics and further expand on these topics’ impact on increasing diversity within higher education institutions (HEIs). A summary of organizational routines defines organizational routines, demonstrates how routines are used within HEIs, and describes how HEIs modify their routines over time in an attempt to improve outcomes. Subsequently, a summary of organizational learning presents an overview of how HEIs learn from their current and past actions, defines single and double loop learning, and elaborates on barriers to learning that may, in fact, stem from attributes of chosen learning techniques. Finally, a summary of organizational diversity elaborates on the myriad of characteristics that should be included within the term “diversity,” describes the dearth of...

Invoking Agency: Talking About Racial Diversity and Campus Climate on Social Media

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The 2015-2016 Undergraduate Research Partnership Initiative (URPI) study explored students’ use of social media to engage in discussion of racial/ethnic diversity and campus climate. The purpose of the study was to better understand how students utilize social media to talk about issues of racial/ethnic diversity and campus climate to inform how UCLA might capitalize on social media use to promote a safe, welcoming and empowering campus environment. Eighteen interviews and an in-depth content analysis of student Facebook pages were used to explore the following questions: 1) How do students describe their posting behaviors and engagement with issues of racial diversity and campus climate on social media? 2) How frequently do students use social media to discuss issues of racial diversity and campus climate in either positive or negative ways? and 3) What does participant posting behavior and engagement with issues of racial diversity and campus climate on social media say about...

The Daughter of Dawn: Restoration in a Rural Community

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The recent restoration of The Daughter of Dawn, an American silent film made in 1920, is a significant example of both film preservation performed by a regional film archive and its implications for preserving diverse cultural heritage within rural communities. The film was shot in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge in Lawton, Oklahoma, and the cast is composed entirely of 300 members of the Kiowa Tribe and the Comanche Nation. Thought to be lost, the film was discovered by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2007, and the restoration was completed and first exhibited in 2012. Since then, the film has also been digitized by Milestone Films and sold to Netflix. What is the significance of this restoration for the larger field of moving image archiving? What larger implications for the archival profession can be gleaned from the restoration of The Daughter of Dawn? How can archives better preserve the diverse cultural heritage of rural communities?
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Electronic Storybooks Among Children of Low SES: Critically Re-Evaluating the Evidence from 1997-2009

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This critical synthesis re-evaluates a widely-cited sample of peer-reviewed empirical journal articles supporting electronic storybooks as a promising medium for literacy learning among preschoolers of low SES. From a critical re-assessment of these experimental studies across quality variables indicative of good research design (e.g., participant description, treatment detail, treatment fidelity, operationalized measures, measure reliability, internal and external validity, and clarity of causal inference), synthesis results indicate that all studies contained methodological weaknesses in one of more of these areas. The most serious flaws observed were failure to utilize proven instrumentation, inadequately described samples, small samples, and non-uniform treatment conditions. Evidence suggests that higher quality studies are needed before conclusive statements can be made on the efficacy of e-storybooks for vulnerable populations. Implications and recommendations for future...

Naming Experience: Registering Resistance and Mobilizing Change with Qualitative Tools

Sun, 1 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000
This project draws from our work investigating the state of collected data on policeofficer-involved homicides (POIH) in Los Angeles County and using action research to involvecommunity members in understanding and deploying data in new and meaningful ways. In thispaper, we develop the conceptual bounds for a project that addresses the reports our team hasencountered detailing police harassment of students and faculty at UCLA. A common thread inthese reports is that individuals wish to share their experiences with police harassment at UCLA,but feel they have few spaces to voice their concerns or channel them into productive tools forchange. This paper reviews literature in fields of critical legal storytelling, as well as informationand archival studies’ practices of data management for social justice to conceptualize a projectthat will tackle the issue of police harassment at UCLA through the creation of a mobileapplication for reporting such incidents. We draw from this literature...

Spring 2016 Editor's Note

Fri, 5 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000
Spring 2016 Editor's Note

Rethinking the Ethics of Internationalization: Five Challenges for Higher Education

Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In this paper I consider the need to rethink existing ethical approaches to the internationalization of higher education. In particular, I consider the risk that the same developmentalist assumptions that reproduce the highly uneven global higher education landscape also shape many of our efforts to address these inequities. To do so, I situate the current moment within a longer history of colonial relations and identify five pressing ethical challenges for higher education scholars and institutions to address. Ultimately, I suggest the need to be more attentive to the harmful investments and colonial frames of reference that keep us from imagining a radically different ethics of internationalization.

Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education: The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists by Susana M. Muñoz

Wed, 1 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This book explores how undocumented students make meaning of the intersection between their immigration status and their social identities as community activists under historical and current contexts of xenophobia. Susana M. Muñoz draws 39 interviews from 13 self-identified Latina/o undocumented and unafraid students across the United States. Students’ journey stories reveal how undocumented student identities and experiences are complex, fluid, and unique to the individual. The author applies queer and resistance theories to help readers understand how undocumented students engage in the “coming out” process as a strategic political action for recognition and visibility. Findings provide recommendations for K-12 and higher education practice, policy, and future research for the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion of undocumented students.

Review: Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star, Edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka

Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Review: Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star, Edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Stefan Timmermans, Adele E. Clarke, and Ellen Balka

Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access

Mon, 8 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000
Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access

Review: Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data, by Ronald E. Day

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Day, Ronald E. Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014. 170 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-02821-9

Acting up, Talking Back: TITA, TIARA, and the Value of Gossip

Fri, 1 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines through an archival lens Tell it to ACT UP and TIARA, the weekly internal papers of the New York and Los Angeles chapters of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). During their short lives, from 1990 to 1992, the papers published news, suggestions, commentary, complaints, and gossip. In spite it challenge to the core archival concept of reliability, this article asserts that gossip provides unique evidence of affect, sex and sexuality, and offers deeper understandings of the individual and group dynamics that made and unmade ACT UP. Gossip, affect, and bodily experience are all knowledges and ways of knowing that have been feminized are therefore frequently devalued and derided in scholarship and practice. The form, content, and tone of these papers are used to make an argument for the value of gossip as a discursive practice. This article contributes to the growing literature in archival studies on conceptualizing and contending...

"The Myth of Oneness ”: Erasure of Indigenous and Ethnic Identities in Digital Feminist Discourse

Fri, 1 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This paper described numerous issues in traditional and social media representation of the One Billion Rising movement regarding the representation of global feminist agendas. Using this movement as a primary case study, an argument describing the proposed myth of ‘oneness’ embedded within the movement and exposing the issues within this myth are discussed.