dassarma.bsky.social
phd candidate at @asc.upenn.edu | she/her studying history, race, colonialism, capitalism & journalism “the ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” - michel-rolph trouillot
👤 Joined on 03 December 2024
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@anjalidassarma.bsky.social@anjalidassarma.bsky.social → @dassarma.bsky.socialWe've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
Show PostThis is easily the best book I've read this year. It's not 'new' information but rather the way it is contextualized; so damned good.
Show PostThis Day in Labor History: August 19, 1969. Sanitation workers in Oklahoma City went on strike. This civil rights oriented strike built on the successful Memphis strike the previous year that had become famous for the assassination of Martin Luther King while he was in town supporting it!!!
Show PostFolks, this was not a regular annual occurrence more than 10 years ago.
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