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
            Photograph album of the diamond jubilee of the African Inland Mission.
            SCA450-GA540 · Fonds · 1951-1955

            Photograph album prepared in celebration of African Inland Mission's (AIM) 60-year Diamond Jubilee in 1955. The album is divided into three sections: “Jubilee 1955” contains photographs of the anniversary celebrations; “African Groups” contains photos of the organization’s churches, schools, hospital, clergy, teachers, students, and members involved in mission activities; and “Special Occasions” includes images of weddings, immunization programs, outdoor services, a leadership conference, and what appears
            to be the construction and dedication of a new church.

             African Inland Mission
            Camilla Young photograph album.
            SCA393-GA458 · Collection · 1946-[198-]

            Photograph and scrapbook album containing photographs and other materials related to the early life of Camilla Young, an African American woman from New Jersey.

            Photographs in album cover Young's life from her birth in 1946 to the early 1980s. First sheets include disbound pages from a commercial baby book written and illustrated by Tony Sarg (issued by New Library Inc. for Greenberg Publishers) filled in by Young's mother with Camilla Young's first photographs and baby accomplishments. Rest of sheets include photographs from Young's childhood, teenage, and adult years. Most photographs are ordered chronologically and range in fashion styles and locations. Photographs include family and friends gatherings, school events, celebrations and parties, holiday trips, and other moments in Young's life.

            Album includes a newspaper clipping with an article about Young published in The News Tribune of Woodbridge Township (today the Central New Jersey Home News Tribune) from August 9, 1979, written by Donna Eastman. Also contains Young's certificate of merit for participation and outstanding performance in the Miss Black America Pageant of New Jersey.

             Young, Camilla