{"id":1324,"date":"2017-10-16T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T19:52:13","slug":"blog-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/16\/blog-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I chose to look at the Samahang Pilipino<\/a> collections guide of items stored within special collections. There are 24 boxes, and each box contains separate folders that are divided into categories: Academic; Administrative; Community; Community; and Political.<\/p>\n

The archival material starts out in 1972\u2014 the year the student-run organization was established. The guide shows a collection of various items, from minutes taken to financial record keeping; one would be able to deduce the state of organization\u2019s formation. Descriptions for a flyer\u2014\u201cUnite in the Spirit of Bonifacio\u201d\u2014 and for a mini-conference schedule \u2014\u201cThe Awakening\u201d\u2014enable a research to get an idea which campaigns the organizations advocated. Moreover, a lot of the material concerns itself with internal events, which affected UCLA.<\/p>\n

One narrative that seems prominent throughout the 1970\u2019s comes in the form of the Filipino People Far West Convention, which occurred annually from 1971 to 1980. There are posters, invitations, agendas, and even a 100-page report detailing Samahang involvement with the convention in 1974. Community advocacy if further represented by documents related to PREP (Pilipino Retention and Education Program), which is a afterschool program hosted by organization members for high school students in LA county. Moreover, there is a collection of documents pertaining to the Pilipino Cultural Night – a cultural performance that took place annually since 1977. What\u2019s intriguing about the cultural night collection is that it contains the most written and oral documentation of the entire collection, maintaining thematic dissertations and recording by alumni that show admiration for performance art.<\/p>\n

If I were to develop a narrative based on information found in this collection, there would not be very much substance to the narrative itself. Most of the documentation is secular, meaning that the documentation reflects only what occurred within UCLA and the students\u2019 campus life. For example, the \u201cUnite in the Spirit of Bonafacio\u201d flyer along with similar flyers in the particular folder (Politics 1972-1973), insinuate a discord with international events – mainly martial law in the Philippines during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos. Researchers get an idea for what problems the Samahang advocated against during the period, yet no documentation detailing the results of such campaigns is present within the special collections archive. In order to rectify this problem, researchers would have to contact alumni to ask for documentation and to conduct interviews, all as an effort to fill in the gap in this period.<\/p>\n

I choose to talk about this archive because I am a member of the organization, and I am very interested in its history. This archive is but yet another example of a minority a group that maintains a portion of their identity in a archive, one that many can consult when questions arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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