Fleshing The Archive
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Fleshing the Archive
Author: María Eugenia Cotera
language: en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date: 2026-02-03
The history of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an archive dedicated to preserving Chicana feminist knowledge of the 1970s and memory work. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed an explosion of publishing by Chicana activists as they took part in the Movimiento against oppression of ethnic Mexicans in the United States. Today, thousands of these documents, including written works and oral histories, have been assembled by the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective. Drawing on these unique resources, Fleshing the Archive traces the innovative Chicana knowledge projects of the Movimiento years. Seeking to think with the past rather than about it, María Cotera explores transgressive sites and discourses of Chicana knowledge, from poems and essays to newspapers, bibliographies, and testimonies. Often published independently and distributed by readers themselves, these works embodied a praxis of feminist and queer consciousness-raising. Observing the startling convergences between Chicana praxis of the 1970s and digital knowledge production in the present, Cotera argues that the Chicana archive enables transformative moments of recognition across time that unsettle supposedly objective accounts of history. The materials preserved by Chicana por mi Raza offer Chicana scholars a model of teaching and learning liberated from a corporate academy that is increasingly hostile to intellectual inquiry.
Fleshing the Archive
Author: María Eugenia Cotera
language: en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date: 2026-02-03
"In this manuscript, Maria Cotera draws on a long lineage of Chicana feminist knowledge in the Movimiento years (1968-1974) that resulted in the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, a digital archive. This gives her the framework to study the Chicana feminist work being produced by women in Texas and California during these years, and in doing so she hopes to show how this can transform an archive, making it feel living and real, and bringing the past and present closer together. She also considers the role of autohistorias like Gloria Anzaldúa's, as an early way of weaving together multiple strands of memory, the collective, and the documentary that can allow us to produce knowledge with the past rather than about it. The CPMR archive contains over 20,000 oral histories, platicas, newspapers, photographs, correspondence and written work by Chicana feminists. By creating this digital archive Cotera and her colleagues have created a space to not only save important historical objects, writings and histories, but in the process of doing this work she wanted to think through how an archive can feel "alive" and where the practice of creating the archive intersects in unexpected ways with these works themselves that were otherwise hidden. She looks first to the work of her mother, Martha Cotera, to understand how her lived experience as a Chicana working within and outside of the academy and local Chicano power movements shaped her information philosophies and moved her towards creating a new form of engagement and sharing of ideas through "information hubs" that eventually carried over into her creation of the Chicana Research and Learning Centers. The second major half of the book looks at Chicana scholars and activists who participated in the Santa Barbara conference that helped push for the creation of Chicana Studies in California by showing how documents in the archive illustrate the invisible labor they faced in working within these Chicano movement groups, and she is able to trace how they challenged power from within and began to focus on the classroom as a site of knowledge and organizing"-- Provided by publisher.
Archival Materialities in a Digital Age
Author: Eirini Goudarouli
language: en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date: 2025-02-27
Materiality looms large in the world of archives in storage, conservation, and shape or materials of the records. How does this materiality change in the digital age? The way digital techniques and materialities transform our engagement with archives is highlighted and explored throughout Archival Materialities in a Digital Age.