Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices

Name: Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices
Uploaded: 2018-06-29T16:25:30Z
Duration: 8 min 24 s
Description: Archivists have an important job — a job that has the ability to save or erase an individual's history or even the history of an entire people. Dominique Luster works to build a historical view that includes marginalized voices and conscious language. In this talk, she shares lessons of this as put in motion with her work archiving the iconic photography of Charles "Teenie" Harris.

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Dominique Luster |

TEDxPittsburgh

• June 2018

Archivists have an important job — a job that has the ability to save or erase an individual's history or even the history of an entire people. Dominique Luster works to build a historical view that includes marginalized voices and conscious language. In this talk, she shares lessons of this as put in motion with her work archiving the iconic photography of Charles "Teenie" Harris.

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