HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO
OUR COLLECTION
Our Accession Policy & Content Scope
The Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery collects materials of enduring research and cultural value, including but not limited to:
• Published and unpublished texts in Black studies, Black Feminism, Literary Studies, Film/Media Studies, Post/Colonial Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Slavery Studies, Political Theory, Affect Theory, Ecological Studies, Economics,
Psychoanalysis, Afropessimism, Art History, Cultural Theory, and Aesthetic Philosophy that are relevant to contemporary and historical Black thought;
• Artist publications, zines, exhibition catalogs, and ephemera related to contemporary art practices that engage the histories and aesthetics of slavery and antiblackness;
• Audio-visual materials including films, recorded lectures, interviews, sound works, and music archives;
• Institutional documents, press releases, correspondence, and printed matter from exhibitions, curatorial projects, or research initiatives responding to slavery’s global
afterlives;
• Donated or deposited personal papers, notes, or annotated works by artists, scholars, and cultural workers whose research or practice contributes to the Center’s mission.
• Accessions may originate from artists, researchers, institutions, and independent archives, or estates.
The Morning Star Research Center welcomes collaboration with other archives, libraries, and cultural institutions with shared commitments to critical memory work and to the ethical handling of materials shaped by or in response to the historical trauma, displacement, and loss incurred as a result of slavery’s representational and economic consequences.
In seeking to stewarrd these materials, the Center also recognizes that no archive is neutral, and endeavors to remain transparent about the conditions under which its holdings are acquired, organized, and made accessible.
To inquire about donating material to MSRCAS, please email info@msresearchcenter.com with a proposal.