Examples of terms not found in any #findingaid audited? "Trans," "illegals," or "codger." Indicative of the age of the collection? The cataloger? Institutional biases? The #harmfullanguage audit posed almost as many questions as it answered. #reparativedescription
"Colored," which occurred 3664 times, refers not only to people, but prints, slides, drawings, etc. An example of how critical #reparativedescription is given the context of a collection. #harmfullanguage
Words of aggrandizement - "important," "wealthy," "genius" - occurred 16050 times. And that doesn't count recent usage on X, just the finding aids. #harmfullanguage #reparativedescription
The word "negro" occurs 3585 times, as in "Hans Albrecht's visit to the US in 1926...sections of the report include topics such as, "factory farms and workers questions"...& "the negro problem."" buff.ly/BbKLWF7 #harmfullanguage #reparativedescription
Continuing gendered invisibility, here are other terms/frequencies: Wife/7658, Daughter/5863, Sister/4831, Miss/4202. Signed JL's wife, Wayne's daughter, T&T's sister, Miss Behaving. #HarmfulLanguage #ReparativeDescription
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Asking questions such as when and why reparative description practices are engaged, what role improved access as a result of digitization plays in motivations for reparative description,
when and how mass digitization results in harmful description at scale, and how aggregation amplifies and legitimizes problematic description
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this research in service to practice project will address growing concerns that have arisen at the intersection of description and digitization, identify developing reparative description practices that model archival harm reduction, and make recommendations for culturally responsive reparative description in U.S. archives.
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