The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archiving

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Organizations participating in the working group include: American Social History Project/ Center for Media and Learning, Bronx Music Heritage Center, Buscada, City Lore, CUNY Graduate Center, Interference Archive, JACK, the Laundromat Project, South Asian American Digital Archive, and Urban Democracy Lab as well as artist and oral historian Walis Johnson, and oral historian and archivist Sady Sullivan.

What we do

• Re-examine how radical archiving informs the discipline and practice of public history

• Establish and share best practices for creating and activating  radical archives

• Convene deep listening workshops aimed at CUNY graduate faculty, staff, and students  

• Work with community partners including Laundromat Project, the South Asian American Digital Archive, Sady Sullivan, and Maggie Schreiner to launch a series of city-wide public events

• Create opportunities in and out of the classroom for undergraduate CUNY senior and community college students to work with the project’s community partners on independent study projects