About
Through preservation practices and the integration of digital elements, the Delis Negrón Digital Archive captures the experience and facilitates the access to Negrón's professional and personal trajectory with the documents available. The main objective of this project is “to apply documentation strategies and to engage in the communities to actively participate in archival practice that will help remedy some of the historical lacunae that affect many underrepresented groups and will empower them to take an active part in the process of documenting their stories and history, rather than remaining the passive object of ‘preservation’” (Love and Ramos 15).
Additionally, this project:
1. Does not intend to make a record of his Delis Negrón's life, but rather to provide access to his personal records, professional trajectory and his participation in the community through the available documents.
2. Opens alternative spaces of inclusion and interaction with scholars and the community in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico, among other countries in the world.
3. Initiates a dialogue on the role of Latinas and Latinos: their participation in various areas such as journalism, literature and political activism, among others, as well as their transnational ties, their multiple and complex identities and their belonging to the history of the Americas.
4. Creates awareness within the Latino community of the importance of maintaining and preserving their familial archives, as well as to trace the missing portions of this archive in other countries.
While implementing the preservation practices and the integration of digital platforms through cyber networks, a wider access to these collections is created. This invites us to reflect on the role of the archives in general and question the notions of its history and those that form part of it.
References:
Love, Valerie and Marisol Ramos. "Identity and Inclusion in the Archives: Challenges of Documenting One's Own Community." Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity and Inclusion. Edited by Mary A. Caldera and Kathryn M. Neal. Society of American Archivists, 2014.