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December 17, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Photography

The camera as a weapon against racial injustice: Eli Reed’s Black In America

During the hot summer months of 2020, especially in the weeks following the May 25th killing of George Floyd while in police custody, the Magnum Photos, Inc. Photography Collection was often on my mind. The scenes of protest that we witnessed, in countless cities across the United States and the… read more

ABOUT STEVEN HOELSCHER

Hoelscher is professor of American Studies and Geography at The University of Texas at Austin and faculty curator at the Harry Ransom Center.

December 8, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching

DARE TO RESEARCH: Diversity Awards for Research Engagement

by JIM KUHN This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? The Harry Ransom Center’s “What Is Research” project ran from 2019-2020. The corresponding “DARE To Research” award was a one-time activity, funded at that time by the University of Texas at Austin Division of Diversity and… read more

ABOUT JIM KUHN

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director for the Library Division and Hobby Foundation Librarian at the Ransom Center. He has master's degrees in philosophy and library science, is the co-author of Academic Freedom: A Guide to the Literature (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has written about special collections librarianship and digital humanities. Jim also volunteers with the campus Victims Advocate Network (VAN), and serves on the board of Texas After Violence Project, an Austin-based community archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understandings of the impacts of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities.

December 1, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1, Research + Teaching

The passion to push the paradigm

by DANIEL ARBINO This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? As a librarian at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin, I have been fortunate to carry values from my personal research journey and apply them to collection development… read more

DANIEL ARBINO
Daniel Arbino is the head of collection development at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. He has published extensively in Caribbean and U.S. Latinx literature with an emphasis on post-colonial theory and critical race theory. His most recent publication is “When the Mirror Says Yes to Dark Beauty: Healing the Colonial Wound" in Inés Hernández-Ávila's "That's Tejana," Chiricú Journal (Fall 2019).