Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago KU Leuven
This project explores home movies and related oral histories of Polish Chicago before the digital era (1960sā2000s) to challenge and broaden our understanding of evolving migrant and diaspora identities. Following critical archive studiesā call to empower communities underrepresented in historiography by developing and interrogating archival collections, the project juxtaposes home movies ā āordinaryā motion pictures created for family and ...