The Bancroft Library has created and provided online access to numerous digital collections involving some of the groups you mentioned. These are available on the California Digital Library's site along with similar contributions from other cultural heritage institutions from across California. California's history involves many peoples and groups and to list only these examples seems a disservice to the many participants in that history, but hopefully this will bring to light a few interesting examples that have to date been digitized.
Below are examples of curated digital collections (selections from various archival collections, for more see: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/), as well as archival collections that have been digitized (for more see: http://oac.cdlib.org/institutions/ark:/13030/tf7r29p8s0): Curated Digital Collections: California Cultures http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/calcultures/ Chinese in California http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/chineseinca/ Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/ Italian Americans in California http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/italianamericans/ Japanese American Relocation Archive (JARDA) http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/ Catalonian Manuscripts http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/catalan/ Digitized Archival Collections: African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9199p6s2 Photographs of Agricultural Laborers in California, ca. 1906-1911 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf200007qw Drawings of Indians and California scenery circa 1851-1854 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8h4nd0m3 C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9f59p6w7 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 photograph collection ca. 1940-1982 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6d5nb26b National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region I, records, 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977) http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf467nb0jm San Francisco Chinese Community and Earthquake Damage, ca. 1906 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2n39n8mr Yoshiko Uchida photograph collection http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft6k4007pc Family members and descendents of General M.G. Vallejo circa 1850-1972 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt300019nx Vietnam: Journey of the heart 1985-2000 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/hb4r29p36v James Earl Wood Photograph Collection Relating to Filipinos in California, ca. 1929-1934 http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5d5nb77z Mary W. Elings Archivist for Digital Collections The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 melings*library.berkeley.edu Ph 510-643-2273 Fx 510-643-2548 At 09:16 PM 3/17/2009, Amalia S. Levi wrote: >Hi, > > As a master?s student in History and Archives at the University of >Maryland, I?m interested in researching how digital archives and collections >make minority narratives?usually not part of mainstream history? >widely available and accessible. I >use the overarching term ?minorities? to include ethnic, racial and >religious groups, indigenous peoples, women, LGBT groups, people with >disabilities, and immigrants; in short, communities that usually are not >agents in the archival and museum world. > > > >In order to collect examples of digital archives of or about minorities in >one place, as well as literature on the subject and tools that may be useful >for developing such projects, I?ve created a wiki called ?Digital Homelands? >(www.digitalminorities.pbwiki.com). Digital archives and collections can >be thought of as transplanted online "homelands," where identities are being >shaped, contested and projected and where the assumption of our >Western archival >and museum practices is being challenged. > > > >The wiki is in no way complete. In order to include as much material as >possible, I would appreciate contributions of archives, collections, >projects or ideas on this subject. > >If you would like to send your thoughts and for more information, please >e-mail me at amaliasl at gmail.com or visit and contribute to my wiki at >www.digitalminorities.pbwiki.com. > > > >Please excuse any crossposting. > > >Thank you, > >Amalia S. Levi >Graduate Assistant >History Department/iSchool >University of Maryland >College Park, MD >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the >listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > >The MCN-L archives can be found at: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
