Race, racism, and colonialism

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  • SCA supports research on race, racism, and colonization through a range of print material and archival collections. These include a growing number of contemporary periodicals and zines focused on and produced by equity deserving communities both re-claiming and celebrating cultural practices prohibited or lost during colonization.

    The department holds records that reflect multiple perspectives on the advancement and impact of colonialism. Examples include the journals and other records of Colin Rankin and Donald McKay, the photograph album of Canadian and British missionaries in India, five land grants issued by the Department of Indian Affairs bestowing lands formerly promised to the Ojibwe and Odawa of Manitoulin Island, and a variety of Indigenous publications written by and about First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, groups and associations. Additionally, the department holds the research and publications of Waterloo’s Sally Weaver, an anthropologist whose work focused on land rights and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples in Canada and Australia.

    Further of note are editions of _Black News_, a Brooklyn-based publication from the 1970s documenting the experiences of Black communities at a critical moment in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and Camilla Young's photograph album, documenting the upbringing and day-to-day life of an African-American woman from New Jersey between the mid-1940s to the 1980s. The department also houses a Black Experience Collection of pulp fiction titles, and a selection of Black Oral Histories with students, faculty and staff connected to the University of Waterloo.

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            Zagar family photograph album.
            SCA420-GA488 · Collection · 1930-1955

            Photograph album containing photographs and other materials related to the Zagar family with an emphasis on their youngest daughter Margaret Ann.

            Photographs and ephemera in album cover the lives of the Zagar family from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. First sheets include photographs of the grandmothers, parents (Stephan and Wilma), twin oldest daughters (Rosalyn and Marilyn Ann), and youngest daughter as a baby (Margaret Ann). Rest of sheets focus on Margaret Ann and her development from early childhood to adulthood after having contracted Polio as an infant. Photographs include family pictures and celebrations, class photographs at the Gompers School for the Handicapped (located at South State St. and 123rd, Chicago), photographs of Margaret Ann's development at different stages, and photographs of family friends. Album also contains religious ephemera, school ephemera related to Gompers School events, and a newspaper clipping related to a function at Gompers School.

             Zagar family
            Reconstruction.
            SCA415-GA483 · Collection · 1866

            Broadside of a poem delivered by Lizzie Doten on September 23, 1866 at Library Hall, Chelsea, titled "Reconstruction." The poem addresses then President Andrew Johnson and criticizes his approach to the South at the end of the American Civil War. She believed that Johnson was too lenient on the South and allowed too much wealth and influence to remain with Southern Confederate politicians. She also criticizes Johnson for being unconcerned with Black suffrage or the rights of Black soldiers who fought for the Union. She ends her poem with the rallying cry "...let the ballot finish what the bayonet has begun."

             Doten, Lizzie