Student Activism: A Reckoning in the Archives with Robin D.G. Kelley

Robin D.G. Kelley, professor, historian and author, delivers the opening keynote for Student Activism: A Reckoning in the Archives, a week-long, in-person residency that brings together student activists/organizers, information professionals, memory workers, scholars, historians and professors committed to the ethical documentation of student activism in historically marginalized communities. The residency aims to foster dialogue about the politics of archiving student activism amidst competing institutional interests in activist-generated materials, whether to surveil and contain dissent or to commemorate and mobilize activist legacies.

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Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression; Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, and (forthcoming) Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life. He also co-edited (with Colin Kaepernick and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor), Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies;His essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Nation, New York Times, New York Review of Books, Hammer and Hope, Black Music Research Journal, Callaloo, Black Scholar, American Quarterly, and The Boston Review, for which he is a contributing editor.

Project STAND has become a community that includes archivists, memory workers, student organizers, and independent scholars dedicated to a movement that centers the voices and stories of historically marginalized student organizers. Project STAND utilizes a reparative archival praxis that requires creating inclusive spaces that celebrate the contributions of student organizers from BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. We promote the ethical documentation and celebration of the entire movement and its people. Archives. Social Justice. Analog. Digital. Visit the Project STAND website(opens in a new tab) to learn more about their story, mission and programs.