Digitizing Hatred: Examining and Enhancing Understanding of Digital Collections on the history of the Second Ku Klux Klan and its Opponents

仇恨数字化：检查并加强对有关第二个三K党及其反对者历史的数字收藏的理解

• 批准号: AH/X011976/1
• 负责人: Miguel Hernandez
• 金额: $ 16.56万
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX011976%2F1
• 关键词: Digitizing; Hatred; Examining; Enhancing; Understanding

The newspapers produced by the Second Ku Klux Klan (c.1915-1944) and its allies, as well as the publications produced by their opponents are a key source about the resurgence of organized white supremacy and nativism in the United States in the period following the First World War. Such newspapers are critical for understanding the rapid social and political developments of the 1920s and 1930s and how different communities fought to determine what it meant to be an American. Klan newspapers can tell us how this organization worked to convince millions of Americans to support their programme of white supremacy, militant Protestantism and patriotism. Meanwhile, their opponents sought through their own print media to expose the ideology of this resurgent movement and to warn their fellow citizens of the dangers of enabling an often violent and exclusionary expression of Americanism. A significant series of these publications has been compiled in the 'Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s' (DWSO) digital collection created by Reveal Digital. This resource has unique potential to stimulate interdisciplinary research agendas and facilitate public interest in this uncomfortable area of American history. Yet the process of digitizing these materials so they can benefit users, and the controversial subject matter they contain, remains a significant challenge. This research project, 'Digitizing Hatred: Examining and Enhancing Understanding of Digital Collections on the history of the Second Ku Klux Klan and its Opponents', aims to analyse how academic and non-academic audiences interact and employ this digital collection in order to develop resources to aid their use of the platform. By examining the needs of different kinds users through workshops, this project will develop a set of resources to help users navigate the collection and to effectively employ them in their own research. While digitizing initiatives continue to become ever more popular to allow global audiences access to primary documents about the past, their use by inexperienced researchers can create issues when context on such sources and the processes of digitization are not readily available. This is especially the case with digital sources such as those produced by the Klan that set out to misdirect audiences and to recruit them to their racist political campaigns. As well as improving the DWSO collection's user experience and research potential, this project will provide a much-needed analysis and model of how to prudently and responsibly create digital collections related to 'difficult history,' an urgent area of research considering the increasing emphasis on digitization. This project's research will be presented in different formats to reach and impact academic scholars and the wider public, who will be able to employ the full DWSO collection after it planned Open-access release on JSTOR. The digital resources developed for the collection will benefit all users and aid them with understanding these sources. Outreach activities in the form of webinars and digital presentations on the progress of the project will clarify how the process of digitization and contextualization has shaped the collection. One or more peer-reviewed article will highlight this process and its challenges in research directed at academic audiences. An international symposium in 2024 on digitizing 'difficult histories' will provide opportunities for knowledge exchange and future collaboration between scholars. Finally, an edited collection arising from this symposium will facilitate the impact of this research and provide new insights for further study.

第二个三K党（c.1915-1944）及其盟友制作的报纸，以及他们的对手制作的出版物，是随后时期美国有组织的白人至上和本土主义复兴的关键来源。第一次世界大战。此类报纸对于了解 20 年代和 1930 年代社会和政治的快速发展以及不同社区如何努力确定作为美国人的意义至关重要。三K党报纸可以告诉我们这个组织如何说服数百万美国人支持他们的白人至上、激进的新教和爱国主义计划。与此同时，他们的反对者试图通过他们自己的印刷媒体来揭露这场复兴运动的意识形态，并警告他们的同胞注意美国主义的暴力和排他性表达的危险。这些出版物的重要系列已汇编在由 Reveal Digital 创建的“记录 1920 年代白人至上及其反对者”(DWSO) 数字馆藏中。该资源具有独特的潜力，可以刺激跨学科研究议程并促进公众对美国历史这一令人不安的领域的兴趣。然而，将这些材料数字化以使用户受益的过程以及其中包含的有争议的主题仍然是一个重大挑战。该研究项目名为“仇恨数字化：检查并加强对有关第二个三K党及其反对者历史的数字馆藏的理解”，旨在分析学术和非学术受众如何互动并使用该数字馆藏来开发资源帮助他们使用该平台。通过研讨会检查不同类型用户的需求，该项目将开发一组资源来帮助用户浏览集合并在自己的研究中有效地使用它们。虽然数字化举措继续变得越来越流行，以允许全球受众访问有关过去的主要文档，但当这些来源和数字化过程的背景不易获得时，缺乏经验的研究人员使用它们可能会产生问题。对于数字资源尤其如此，例如三K党制作的数字资源，这些数字资源旨在误导观众并招募他们参加种族主义政治运动。除了提高 DWSO 馆藏的用户体验和研究潜力外，该项目还将提供急需的分析和模型，说明如何谨慎、负责任地创建与“困难历史”相关的数字馆藏，考虑到人们越来越重视“困难历史”，这是一个紧迫的研究领域。数字化。该项目的研究将以不同的形式呈现，以接触和影响学术学者和更广泛的公众，在计划在 JSTOR 上开放获取发布后，他们将能够使用完整的 DWSO 收藏。为馆藏开发的数字资源将使所有用户受益，并帮助他们了解这些来源。以网络研讨会和关于项目进展的数字演示形式进行的外展活动将阐明数字化和情境化的过程如何塑造藏品。一篇或多篇同行评审的文章将重点介绍这一过程及其在针对学术受众的研究中面临的挑战。 2024 年举行的关于数字化“困难历史”的国际研讨会将为学者之间的知识交流和未来合作提供机会。最后，本次研讨会的编辑集将促进本研究的影响，并为进一步研究提供新的见解。