{"product_id":"the-house-archives-built-other-thoughts-on-black-archival-possibilities","title":"The House Archives Built \u0026 Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAs cultural heritage institutions across the nation grapple with the realization that their collecting histories have captured an incomplete picture of history, curators and archivists like Dorothy Berry have been drawn into complicated conversations. \u003cem\u003eThe House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities\u003c\/em\u003e brings together years of those conversations from their origins in conference halls, webinars, and reading rooms to open them up to the public. The labor and theory that upholds archives has been obscured, but our understandings of history and ourselves rest on those invisible foundations. This book clarifies those foundations while offering new possibilities for imagining archival futures in and outside of institutional holdings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT DOROTHY BERRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Berry\u003c\/strong\u003e is an archivist and writer whose work can be found in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Public Domain Review, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Her writing is informed by archival methodologies from a range of cultural heritage institutions, where she continues to implement creative methods to make archival collections related to Black life available more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback: 89 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e3rd Printing\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: We Here Press (October 16, 2025)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 979-8-218-83148-6 \u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eProduct Dimensions: 6 x .25 x 8.375 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"We Here Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50760243151087,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0060\/8134\/7702\/files\/Screenshot_14-9-2026_191337_www.weherespace.org.jpg?v=1789427641","url":"https:\/\/schomburgshop.com\/products\/the-house-archives-built-other-thoughts-on-black-archival-possibilities","provider":"The Schomburg Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}