HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO
OUR ARCHIVE / LIBRARY
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• Published and unpublished texts in Black studies, Black Feminism, Literary Studies, Film/Media Studies, Post/Colonial Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Slavery Studies, Political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 relevant to the Center’s project;
• 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 steward 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.
Fill out our Archival Donation Form below if you are interested in donating material!
Please note that the filling out the form does not guarantee that your materials will be accepted. As a smaller space, volume is something we have to consider but we may collaborate with you to bring your proposal to a scale we can best accommodate.
This form simply provides for us a portrait of what we can anticipate from your donation in terms of scope, scale, access/restrictions, and copyright. If we are capable of stewarding your materials, the information you input here will help us build an appropriate agreement!