Michelle Caswell (2014) has adapted the term “systematic annihilation” from the discipline of media studies to describe the absence or misrepresentation of marginalized communities in archives. In our podcast, we treat stories as primary documents instead of marginalia. While our podcast does not claim to retrieve or lay out these microhistories in their entirety, at an early stage of its development, we came to realize the potential that the form of the podcast itself offers for a different kind of storytelling. We released our first episode, the Introductory Episode on January 15th, 2022, and have since been consistently releasing one episode per month. In our engagement with the archives at the Tenement Museum, we believe that our podcasting project really opens up the possibilities for an expansion of the archive.
We navigate through the ethical conundrums that one might structurally and personally face in this collaborative endeavor.
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Such an archive resists the colonization and appropriation of lives and narratives of our storytellers. This makes possible the conception of an archive that is both dynamic and collaborative. Through exploring and curating stories from Your Story Our Story, we facilitate conversations that supplement and expand it. screencap of Your Story Our Story homepage Together, the stories help us see how the unique histories shape the nation, and the patterns that bind us together. Each story reveals one individual’s experience. Through YSOS, the Tenement Museum invites people across the country to share their stories in the online digital storytelling exhibit. Some of the storytellers are first generation immigrants, while others are descendants of immigrants, born and raised in the US their great-grandparents or grandparents migrated to the US ages ago. The Tenement Museum focuses on immigration and immigrants to “foster a society that embraces and values the role of immigration in the evolving American identity.” YSOS cofounded by Annie Polland and Kathryn Lloyd, is a digital archive is a digital archive that houses stories associated with immigration, migration, and cultural identity.
These storytellers have submitted stories to the Tenement Museum’s digital archive Your Story, Our Story ( YSOS),įounded in 1988, the Tenement Museum, have been our advisors and the executive producers of the podcast. It features storytellers who share their family stories about migration and the centrality of women in their life histories. Immigrants Wake America is a public humanities, community-engaged project of digital storytelling through podcasts, in partnership with the Tenement Museum in New York. Image by Flickr User Cliff Dix (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Tenement Museum in New York’s Lower East Side.
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