The Social Movement Archive

This color art book highlights political art and ephemera, including zines, stickers, posters, and memes, and sheds light on archiving social movements. The book features interviews with 15 artists and activists, in areas including women’s liberation, disability rights, housing, antiwar, and indigenous issues. They offer insight on the material culture of social movements and provide alternative ideas of what archives can be, with special emphasis on digital archives. Some archives and collections discussed include the Swarthmore Peace Collection, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Lesbian Herstory Archive, the Next Epoch Seed Library, and the Sanctuary for Independent Media. The art program offers color illustrations on every page. 

Jen Hoyer is a New York City based library and archives worker and a long time volunteer at Interference Archive where she works on exhibitions, cataloging, and more. Jen loves working through how archives can help people understand themselves and their place in the world. She currently teaches K-12 students how to think critically about the world around them through the lens of the local history archive at Brooklyn Public Library.

Nora Almeida is a librarian, writer, and environmental activist. She is an Associate Professor in the Library Department at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY) and has been volunteering at Interference Archive since 2015 where she helps organize educational programs, media-making events, exhibitions, and more. She writes about critical pedagogy, social justice, performance, neoliberalism, and place.

• Publisher: Proquest Black Box B&T
• Publish Date: May 1, 2021
• Pages: 246
• Dimensions: 7.00 X 1.00 X 9.75 inches | 1.32 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781634000895
• BISAC Categories: Art, Politics, Subjects & Themes - Social Movements, Criticism & Theory, History, Archives