Authors
Eagle Yun, Audra
Tribbett, Krystal, Ph.D.
Vo Dang, Thuy, Ph.D.
et al.
This chapter makes a case for critical engagement with ethnic studies and community-based archives through primary source instruction. The research project Transforming Knowledge/Transforming Libraries (TKTL) examined how libraries might become essential partners in providing ethnic studies students with the tools and language to present, preserve, and disseminate community history. This chapter discusses the TKTL primary source workshop design and offers a reflection on data collected over two years, including responses from student participants who were awakened, empowered, and transformed by the experience of critically engaging history through these workshops. This pedagogical method may activate the power and agency of students as records creators, building new generations of stewards of community history.