Decolonizing the Caribbean Record : an Archives Reader

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Year of Publication
2018
Contributors Editor: Jeannette A. Bastian
Editor: John A. Aarons
Editor: Stanley H. Griffin
Series Title
Series on Archives, Archivists, and Society
Volume
8
Language
Number of Pages
816 pp.
Publisher
Litwin Books
City
Sacremento, CA
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ISBN
9781634000598
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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