Antracoli, Alexis A., Annalise Berdini, Kelly Bolding, Faith Charlton, Amanda Ferrara, Valencia Johnson, and Katy Rawdon. Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources. 2019.
Created by a team of largely white persons who work in primarily white institutions (PWI), Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia is a resource and recommendation for metadata procedures, addressing racist and anti-Black descriptions and structures within PWIs. Their suggestions focus on: voice and style; community collaboration and expanding audiences; auditing legacy descriptions and reparative processing; handling racist folder titles and creator-sourced description; describing slavery records; subjects and classification; and transparency. Lastly, Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia includes an annotated bibliography, highlighting the work of others to combat racist archival description and, therefore, the repressive and violent structures within their institutions. Overall, Antracoli et al.’s work provides a guide for PWIs to begin necessary, reparative work that combats institutional investment in and perpetuation of racism through descriptions.