South Asian American Digital Archive
The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences. SAADA offers a digital repository where professional archivists and historians care for digital copies of historically significant documents, newspapers, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other ephemera relating to South Asian Americans, made available to the public free of charge. SAADA's collection is focused on materials of those in the US who trace their heritage to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the many South Asian diaspora communities across the globe. In 2016, the organization received Center support for a discovery process to consider how its archive might inform new works that grapple with questions of identity and belonging. A 2018 Project grant supports the commissioning of new musical compositions for Revolution Remix, a sound tour that explores historic Philadelphia through the lens of South Asian American history.
