THE AFRICANA STUDIES BOOK CLUB WELCOMES:
Dorothy Berry, Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to discuss her work The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities
As cultural heritage institutions across the nation grapple with the realization that their collecting histories have captured an incomplete picture of history, curators and archivists like Dorothy Berry have been drawn into complicated conversations. The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities brings together years of those conversations from their origins in conference halls, webinars, and reading rooms to open them up to the public.
Dorothy Berry is an archivist and writer whose work can be found in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Public Domain Review, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Her writing is informed by archival methodologies from a range of cultural heritage institutions, where she continues to implement creative methods to make archival collections related to Black life available more broadly.
Presented by the AFRICANA STUDIES PROGRAM and LEHIGH LIBRARIES
