{"id":701,"date":"2015-12-14T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T19:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2015-12-15T01:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T01:43:39","slug":"third-world-womens-alliancemaking-use-of-digital-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Third World Women’s Alliance\/Making Use of Digital Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First edition of Triple Jeopardy, the newspaper of the Third World Women’s Alliance<\/p><\/div>\n

I wanted to just make a pitch to everyone to remember that \u00a0you can find\u00a0primary sources in rooms beyond those designated as “archives” \u00a0 cultural institutions like the Schomburg: sometimes they are in main collections or (since digitization is happening at an increasing rapid clip) online. You should be inventive and wide-ranging when looking for accessible copies of works you might want to use. \u00a0For example, following up on Michelle’s Archive Task #1, I was trying to see if there was anyplace in NYC that has papers related to the Third World Women’s Alliance. \u00a0The main branch of the NYPL (not the “archive” per se) has\u00a0Triple Jeopardy<\/em>, the newspaper of the TWWA, in its main collection. \u00a0However, that journal is also available online in the Independent Voices database.<\/p>\n

Independent Voices\u00a0<\/a>is an open-access collection of digitized independent publications. It can be a very rich source for Black Power\/”post” Black Power and Feminist materials.\u00a0For example, I found several pieces by Ntozake (also spelled Ntosake) in the database. \u00a0Since some of you are interested in healing, I have a screenshot of \u00a0her talking about her work with “injured” women in an extensive interview published in the literary journal,\u00a0\u00a0River Styx<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ntozake’s response to interview questions from Students at Harris-Stowe College in Saint Louis (1978). Note the use of the dash in the interview transcription.<\/p><\/div>\n

I highly recommend this interview, Shange talks about many of the things you are investigating now: Black Power, Spirituality, Third Worldism, \u00a0Feminism, childhood, etc. \u00a0Independent Voices<\/em> also suggests that you help with digitization by correcting some of the OCR (Optical-Scanning Recognition) errors.<\/p>\n

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Shange, Ntozake. \u201cNtozake Shange: Live from Saint Louis!\u201d River Styx<\/a><\/i>, no. 5 (1979): 91\u2013115.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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UPDATE: \u00a0I absolutely forgot to share with you Archive Grid<\/a>, an archive search engine that lets you map searches. for example, when I did a search for\u00a0Triple Jeopardy<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0once I moved from the daunting “list view,” the summary view<\/a> let me know that in Philadelphia (hey Michelle!) there was a copy of one issue located in the “Women’s Health Concerns Committee Records” at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/div>\n

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Closer to home, I discovered that the Columbia literary magazine, Emanon<\/a><\/em>, published some of Ntozake Shange’s poetry from when she was a Barnard Student (search Paulette Williams).<\/p>\n

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