Decolonizing the Caribbean record : an archives reader / editors, Jeannette A. Bastian, John A. Aarons, Stanley H. Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bastian, Jeannette A., editor.

Aarons, John A., editor.

Griffin, Stanley H., editor.

Series:

Series on archives, archivists and society ; 8.

Series on archives, archivists, and society ; number 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives--Caribbean Area.

Archives.

Archivists--Caribbean Area.

Archivists.

Collective memory--Caribbean Area.

Collective memory.

Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (828 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sacramento, Calif. : Library Juice Press, [2018]

Summary:

"A collection of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of the Caribbean region that address challenges of collecting, representing and preserving the records and cultural expressions of former colonial societies, exploring the contribution of these records to nation-building"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : decolonizing the Caribbean record / Jeannette A. Bastian, Stanley H. Griffin, John A. Aarons

Historical developments in Caribbean archives and record keeping / John A. Aarons and Sharon Alexander-Gooding

Puerto Rico's archival traditions in a colonial context / Joel Blanco-Rivera and Marisol Ramos

The return of the historical archives (1661-1975) from the Netherlands to Suriname / Rita Tjien Fooh

The National Archives of Barbados : making lemonade with limes - my archival life / Christine Matthews Rocheford

National Archives of the Bahamas, an interview with Gail Saunders

Working at the National Archives of Guyana : experiences, challenges & lessons / Hugh (Tommy) Payne

The British Virgin Islands Archives experience : frustrations and obstacles / Verna Penn Moll

The Jamaica Archives : reflections on changes over the years / John A. Aarons

Information Rights (IRs) and recordkeeping in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Cherri-Ann Beckle

The records of West Indies Federation and the acquisition of the archives by the University of the West Indies (UWI) / Sharon Alexander-Gooding

Frameworks for managing government records : a case study of Trinidad and Tobago / Helena Leonce and James Lowry

Recordkeeping, strategic priorities, and governance in small island Caribbean communities / Victoria Lemieux

Records in geopardy : natural disasters, disaster planning and recovery in Montserrat / Gracelyn Cassell

Reparations and the historical record : the Barbados Department of Archives in the reclaiming of the historic past / Pedro Welch

Making the West Indian Archive accessible : Ken Ingram's archival cartography / James Robertson

Battling the ailment of sameness : innovative approaches to archiving at the National Archives Authority of Saint Lucia / Margot Thomas

Preserving archival collections in the 21st century : the Caribbean experience / Racquel Stratchan-Innerarity

Which court is the ball in now? A case study of archival outreach in St. Kitts / Victoria Borg-O'Flaherty

Unearthing societies with secrets in the Anglophone Caribbean through archival research / Allison O. Ramsay

Maroons in the archives : the uses of the past in the French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois

Private archives - "An untapped treasure" : the view from Jamaica / John A. Aarons

Capturing personal stories, oral histories and microhistories : a case study from Montserrat / Gracelyn Cassell

Putting up ah resistance" : Rastafari records, struggles, and triumphs / Stanley H. Griffin

Play Mas' : carnival in the archives and the archives in carnival : records and community identity in the United States Virgin Islands / Jeannette A. Bastian

Breaking the silence : the case for establishing sound archives in the Caribbean / Elizabeth F. Watson

The monument as public archive / Verene Shepherd

Building an inclusive past, democratizing heritage : an evaluation of community recordkeeping in Trinidad and Tobago / Roma Wong Sang

The reggae archives : confessions of an accidental archivist / Roger Steffens

Forgetting is not democratic : the digital archive of Radio Haiti-Inter, a case study / Laura Wagner

Documenting Trinidad and Tobago's Mas / Lorraine Nero

Jamaican Tai-no symbols / Ivor Conolley

Reading historical remains : a museum perspective / Suzanne Francis-Brown

Never catch me : land and law in attending to the Haitian past / Winter Schneider

Authenticating heritage / Karl Watson

Is we speak to we now : the making of Caribbean Archives in London / H.J.M. Ishmael

Researching Anglophone Caribbean literature : archival encounters and hidden histories in the Atlantic world / Alison Donnell

Records of the Moravian Church in the Caribbean / Paul Peucker and Thomas J. McCullough

Genealogy and family history in the Caribbean : an archivists toolkit / Guy Grannum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63400-064-1