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Dec 03, 2024
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ENGL 161A PZ -Archiving Social Movements
Institution: Pitzer
Description: Archiving Social Movements: Forms of Institutional and Cultural Memory
The act of preserving the voices of oppressed groups, marginalized communities, and social
movements can itself be a form of activism. The Social Movements Collection, held in Special
Collections at the Claremont Colleges Library, made up of various materials from differing social
movements throughout the 20th century is an excellent local example. Holdings include
materials from the Black civil rights movement, Chicanx Movement, the United Farm Workers,
the Young Lords movement, and the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles. Items in the collection range
from pamphlets, zines, photographs, banners, posters, programs, art, and tattoo designs. As a
class, and in collaboration with the staff at Special Collections, we will explore what these
holdings tell us about the past—and our present. Contextualizing the histories of struggle
surrounding the Collection’s artifacts, we will also ask what sorts of forgotten or occluded futures
they invoke. At the same time, the course will examine literature and other creative forms as an
alternative means of transmitting cultural memory, teasing out how institutional narratives,
ellisions, censorship, and budgetary limitations are addressed and redressed beyond “the
archive.†The course will conclude with an examination of grassroots archival practices,
including Veteranas And Rucas and the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising digital repository. For
the final project, students will create a digital activist archive of their own.
Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.
For up-to-date information on current course offerings and details, please refer to the Pitzer class schedule on MyCampus2 Portal .
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