Epilogue: Meditations on the Future of Latina/o Archival and Memory Practice, Research and Education

***Note: Figures may be missing from this format of the document Since the Memoria, Voz, y Patrimonio (MVP) Conference (2003), the archival literature continues to grapple with issues pertinent to Latina/o archives. Extending the work of the MVP Conference, drawing on the archival and cultural studies literature, and grounded in our experiences with under-represented communities, this epilogue offers our meditations on the future of Latina/o archival and memory practice, research and education. The archives and archivists as social structures and agents, respectively, are viewed through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu‟s symbolic power whereby they need to be liberated from the symbolic domination legitimized and reproduced in the classic archives