Reparative Archival Descriptions
JHU's Sheridan Libraries embarks on a project to eradicate harmful language from its catalog.
We laud Sheridan Libraries, Archives, and Museum’s new Reparative Archival Descriptions initiative in which they seek to redescribe and contextualize harmful records in their collections and archives. Scholars of the marginalized and dispossessed know that the archive is informed by and can reinforce the values of the society that made it. We applaud the Libraries’ efforts to make their collections a more ethical space for the lives contained within them, as well as the people who will peruse them.
For more, see: https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-departments/special-collections/reparative-archival-description/
See also this Substack post from our friends at Hard Histories at JHU for more.