some possible sources

Hey Evan,

I thought you might be interested in some of these papers (I used them for my A & D paper last semester) that deal specifically with power imbalance in archives: Carter, Rodney G.S. “Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence.” Archivaria 61 (2006): 215-233. Cook, Terry and Schwartz, Joan M. “Archives, Records, and Power: From (Postmodern) Theory to (Archival) Performance.” Archival Science 2, (2002): 171-185. Duff, Wendy M. and Harris, Verne. “Stories and Names: Archival Description as Narrating Records and Constructing Meanings.” Archival Science 2, (2002): 263-285. Dunbar, Anthony W. “Introducing Critical Race Theory to Archival Discourse: Getting the Conversation Started.” Archival Science 6, (2006): 109-129. doi: 0.1007/s10502-006-9022-6 Harris, Verne. “The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory, and Archives in South Africa.” Archival Science 2, (2002): 63-86. Johnson, Valerie. “Creating History? Confronting the Myth of Objectivity in the Archive.” Archives xxxii, no. 117 (2007): 128-143. Johnston, Ian. “Whose History is it Anyway?” Journal of the Society of Archivists 22, no. 2 (2001): 213-229. Schaeffer, Roy C. “Transcendent Concepts: Power, Appraisal, and the Archivist as “Social Outcast”.” American Archivist 55, (1992): 608-619. Schwartz, Joan M. and Cook, Terry. “Archives, Records, and Power: The Making of Modern Memory.” Archival Science 2, (2002): 1-19.

Good luck!