Barragan-Alvarez, José Adrian

Bleichmar, Daniela

Domingues da Silva, Daniel B.

Guy, Melissa

Safier, Neil

English

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FEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTEN ABOUTThe past is never dead. It's no t  even pastNOT EVEN PASTSearch the  si te ...XIHS Roundtable:  BetweenNeocolonial Collecting andAnt ico lonia l  Resistance? TheLogic of  Afro-Lat ine/Lat ine/Lat in-Amer icanArchives i n  the Un i ted  Statesi sdui CORCTINGAND ANTICOLONIALST E LOGIC OF AFRO- ATI LATRE/LATH AMER CAN ARCHIVNTHEUS." %1 ed Latin American Collectiona " * T-Riastin celebrates the centennial of iWE"  founding, the IHS will host an informco te  sation online on the past and futuAffo-Lating Latiné, and Latin America| Vo collectionsin the U,OI THE | ISTITUTE ON: °getebruary 21, 2022 =0 130 pm eT yInstitute for Historical Studies — Monday February 21, 2022FEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTEN ABOUTpreserea Dy LLILAS BENSON La t  AIMErican Stuaies anda COoIECTIONS, Fepruary £4—=29, ZUZL.Notes from the  DirectorAs the Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin celebrates the centennial ofits founding, the Institute for Historical Studies will host an informal conversation online on the past andfuture of Afro-Latiné, Latiné, and Latin American collections in the United States.With the acquisition of Genaro Garcia's massive library on post-revolutionary Mexico in 1921, UT assigneda librarian to organize the collection. In 1934, a specialized library for Latin American materials emergedout of Garcia's core collection. Only three years later the new library acquired the papers of Joaquin GarciaIcazbalceta, including some of the Indigenous maps prompted by the Spanish crown geographical queriesof 1576, known today as Relaciones Geograficas. These images are today a synecdoche for the BensonLibrary itself. In the 1960s, the Chicano mobilization on campus forced the administration to collectmaterials on the Latiné experience. While no specialized Chicano library emerged out of the turmoil, theBenson was charged with assembling Latiné collections. The Benson has continued to collect both LatinAmericana and Latiné materials.The history of the Benson is a window into several transnational, national, and local processes tworth exploring. The 1910s and 1920s rise of Hispanism and borderland history among White ag¢ademicslike Eugene Herbert Bolton, the 1920s and 30s expatriation of Mexican collections, the rise of PaFEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTEN ABOUTCIVIL KIGNT Era are dil Continuing 1aclors to Unuerstdanaing t e  ongins or tne u l  Collecuons. | nese samefactors help explain many other collections in the U.S,, including the Bancroft, Tulane, the Huntington, andthe Hispanic Society, among many others.The purpose of our conversation would be to explore the nature of these various historical developmentsnot only to shed light on the past but to address the future of Latiné and Latin American collections in theU.S. and Latin America.The end of the Cold War did not put an end to Latin American collecting. The opposite happened. As largewaves of migration from Central America and Mexico continued across the border, the U.S. itself becamea “Hispanic” society, not just the Southwest. The rapid growth of dual immersion education in Spanish inwhite middle class neighborhoods is a testament to this larger cultural transformation. More recently,BlackLivesMatter has also made the Afro-Latiné experience more visible after centuries of archivalneglect.How to correct this racist bias that has excluded Afro-Latiné from collections? How to create Afro-Latinéand Afro-Latin-American collections? Have the new politics of  Latiné and Latin American identitiesoutgrown the neocolonial and anticolonial forces that first created these collections? Should we continueto decontextualize colonial Indigenous “paintings” as “codices” when they were part of colonial paperwork,documenting various forms of mundane, local, community politics? Should neocolonial Hispanism, theBlack Legend, and anticolonial identity politics continue to organize our collecting regimes? How toremember Latin America as the cradle of 19th century revolutionary global republicanism and democracy?Are the processes that have caused Chile to develop the most advanced anti-earthquake engineering inthe world also worth collecting? Should we emphasize only archiving the memory of colonialism, poverty,and repression? How to collect a history of Latiné businesses and wealth? How are common transborderexperiences changing the priorities of collecting? Should we keep Latiné and Latin American materialsseparate anymore? What else is worth collecting in the U.S. about Latiné and Latin American societies?Featured Panelists:José Adrian Barragan-AlvarezCurator of Latin AmericanaThe Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, BerkeleyDaniela BleichmarFEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTEN ABOUTDIrector, USL SOCIeTy OT FEIIOWS IN tne HumanitiesUniversity of Southern CaliforniaDaniel B. Domingues da SilvaCo-Curator, Slave Voyages digital archiveAssociate Professor of HistoryRice UniversityMelissa GuyNettie Lee Benson Librarian and Director, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American CollectionLLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and CollectionsThe University of Texas at AustinNeil SafierFormer Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, The John Carter BrownLibrary (2013-2021), andAssociate Professor, Department of HistoryBrown UniversitySponsored by: Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History; and LLILAS Benson LatinAmerican Studies and CollectionsThe views and opinions expressed in this article or video are those of  the individual author(s) orpresenter(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policy or views of  the editors at  Not Even Past, the UTDepartment of  History, the University of  Texas at  Austin, or the UT System Board o f  Regents. Not EvenPast is an online public history magazine rather than a peer-reviewed academic journal. While we makeefforts to ensure that factual information in articles was obtained from reliable sources, Not Even Past isnot responsible for any errors or omissions.Posted February 28, 2022More Institute for  Historical Studies, Watch & ListenFEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTENRECENT POSTS“Texas, Our Catholic Texas"?A Lager Beer Revolution: The History of Beer and GermanAmerican ImmigrationTeaching about Colonial Latin America through ObjectsFear and Lust in the Desert, or How Lies, Deception, andTrickery Made California a Date Palm MonopolyLast Seen: Teaching about Slavery through the Lens of theDomestic Slave Trade and Family SeparationNOT EVEN PAST is produced byThe Department of HistoryTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINWe are supported by the College of Liberal ArtsAnd our READERSDONATECONTACTAll content © 2010-present NOT EVEN PAST and the authors, unlessotherwise notedFEATURES REVIEWS TEACHING WATCH & LISTEN ABOUTABOUTSign up  to receive our MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro- Latine/Latine/Latin-American Archives in the United States

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IHS Roundtable: Between Neocolonial Collecting and Anticolonial Resistance? The Logic of Afro- Latine/Latine/Latin-American Archives in the United States

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