the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage
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Milton Machuca-Galvez, DeLisa Minor Harris, and Rachel E. Winston explore the importance of language documented collections that represent Hispanic and Latino immigrants in Kansas, Haiti, and the musical tradition of calypso.
MYgration Stories: The Oral Histories of Hispanic immigrants in Kansas City, Kansas consist of a nine-page report, interview transcripts, and sound cassettes. It includes recordings of 31 Hispanic and Latino immigrants residing in Kansas City, Kansas, with 24 interviews conducted as part of an oral history project funded by the Kansas Humanities Council and El Centro, Inc. The interviews were conducted from January to October 2003 by project director Rebekah L. Moses and focus on five main areas: basic demographics, immigration experience, expectations versus reality, national identity, and racial discrimination. The project report summarizes the demographics of interviewees and their responses, followed by the interview transcripts arranged alphabetically by surname.
Keywords: Hispanic Migrants; Kansas City, Kansas; Oral History
A collection of 55 rare Haitian books dating between ranging from 1804 to 1950 given to Fisk University by Haiti’s President Paul Magloire in 1955 on the occasion of his trip to Nashville. The collection represents the Agency and reclaiming Haitian History and Culture, by Haitian people. Global Identity across the African Diaspora. Most the of the book collection is printed in Haitian Kreyol including a significantly rare Haitian pamphlet, Le Document: Organe de la librarie d’Histoire d’Haiti et des (Euvres de la Pensee Haitienne. Each volume included in the collection is bound in a leather material with scenes of Haiti and Haitian history etched into the leather.
Keywords: Haiti, Fisk, Haitian Kreyol, Griots, Caribbean
Calypso Souvenir Booklets from Trinidad and Tobago
Calypso is a musical genre and art form with roots in Trinidad and Tobago and the English speaking Caribbean. Originally an oral tradition, calypso was used as a way to spread news, relay public opinion, and both educate and entertain society. Using calypso souvenir booklets dated 1945, 1947, and 1949 from the Benson Latin American Collection at UT Austin, this segment explores the calypso tradition through the lens of language and counternarrative.
Keywords: Calypso, creole, music, Caribbean
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Milton Machuca-Galvez, DeLisa Minor Harris, and Rachel E. Winston explore the importance of language documented collections that represent Hispanic and Latino immigrants in Kansas, Haiti, and the musical tradition of calypso.
MYgration Stories: The Oral Histories of Hispanic immigrants in Kansas City, Kansas consist of a nine-page report, interview transcripts, and sound cassettes. It includes recordings of 31 Hispanic and Latino immigrants residing in Kansas City, Kansas, with 24 interviews conducted as part of an oral history project funded by the Kansas Humanities Council and El Centro, Inc. The interviews were conducted from January to October 2003 by project director Rebekah L. Moses and focus on five main areas: basic demographics, immigration experience, expectations versus reality, national identity, and racial discrimination. The project report summarizes the demographics of interviewees and their responses, followed by the interview transcripts arranged alphabetically by surname.
Keywords: Hispanic Migrants; Kansas City, Kansas; Oral History
A collection of 55 rare Haitian books dating between ranging from 1804 to 1950 given to Fisk University by Haiti’s President Paul Magloire in 1955 on the occasion of his trip to Nashville. The collection represents the Agency and reclaiming Haitian History and Culture, by Haitian people. Global Identity across the African Diaspora. Most the of the book collection is printed in Haitian Kreyol including a significantly rare Haitian pamphlet, Le Document: Organe de la librarie d’Histoire d’Haiti et des (Euvres de la Pensee Haitienne. Each volume included in the collection is bound in a leather material with scenes of Haiti and Haitian history etched into the leather.
Keywords: Haiti, Fisk, Haitian Kreyol, Griots, Caribbean
Calypso Souvenir Booklets from Trinidad and Tobago
Calypso is a musical genre and art form with roots in Trinidad and Tobago and the English speaking Caribbean. Originally an oral tradition, calypso was used as a way to spread news, relay public opinion, and both educate and entertain society. Using calypso souvenir booklets dated 1945, 1947, and 1949 from the Benson Latin American Collection at UT Austin, this segment explores the calypso tradition through the lens of language and counternarrative.
Keywords: Calypso, creole, music, Caribbean
Hidden Histories: African American, Asian American, and Afro-Asian Relationality
Counter Narratives in Practice
6 years ago
Hidden Histories: African American, Asian American, and Afro-Asian Relationality
In her conversation with Jina, Meaghan discusses the origins of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library, its extensive collections, and how the SHC came to be known as the preeminent repository on the Antebellum South’s ruling elite. She then delves into how these collections also document the history of enslaved people and how that particular history is often hidden from view. Finally, Meaghan shares the ways that she and her colleagues are working to change that and bring the history of enslaved people to the fore.
Keywords: “hidden history”, collecting legacy, African American history, conscious editing, records of enslavement
Links mentioned during the interview:
May Brown Letter: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00011/#folder_8#1
UNC Libraries Reckoning Framework: https://library.unc.edu/reckoning/framework/
Using Records about Slavery in the Southern Historical Collection: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/researching-records-slavery/home-page
Slavery Era Finding Aid Remediations: https://github.com/UNC-Libraries/SCTS-Documentation/blob/main/Slavery%20Era%20Finding%20Aids%20Remediation.md
Victor Betts begins the conversation with a story of two particular individuals: Justina Williams and Dr. Kenichi Kojima. He shares what interested him about these two and how they were the catalyst to a year-long archival research project that examined the invisible history of Asians and Asian Americans at North Carolina State University. He also talks about the importance of documenting historically marginalized voices in the university collections given the harmful practices and policies of the past that haunts the archives today. Hear his advice on what to do when encountering absences during your archival research process and projects he is currently working on.
Keywords: African American history, Asian American history, Afro-Asian relationality, university archives, collective memories, archival gaps, archival silences
Links mentioned during the interview:
go.ncsu.edu/aaa-hst
go.ncsu.edu/rad_scrc
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scrc
Counter Narratives in Practice
Milton Machuca-Galvez, DeLisa Minor Harris, and Rachel E. Winston explore the importance of language documented collections that represent Hispanic and Latino immigrants in Kansas, Haiti, and the musical tradition of calypso.
MYgration Stories: The Oral Histories of Hispanic immigrants in Kansas City, Kansas consist of a nine-page report, interview transcripts, and sound cassettes. It includes recordings of 31 Hispanic and Latino immigrants residing in Kansas City, Kansas, with 24 interviews conducted as part of an oral history project funded by the Kansas Humanities Council and El Centro, Inc. The interviews were conducted from January to October 2003 by project director Rebekah L. Moses and focus on five main areas: basic demographics, immigration experience, expectations versus reality, national identity, and racial discrimination. The project report summarizes the demographics of interviewees and their responses, followed by the interview transcripts arranged alphabetically by surname.
Keywords: Hispanic Migrants; Kansas City, Kansas; Oral History
A collection of 55 rare Haitian books dating between ranging from 1804 to 1950 given to Fisk University by Haiti’s President Paul Magloire in 1955 on the occasion of his trip to Nashville. The collection represents the Agency and reclaiming Haitian History and Culture, by Haitian people. Global Identity across the African Diaspora. Most the of the book collection is printed in Haitian Kreyol including a significantly rare Haitian pamphlet, Le Document: Organe de la librarie d’Histoire d’Haiti et des (Euvres de la Pensee Haitienne. Each volume included in the collection is bound in a leather material with scenes of Haiti and Haitian history etched into the leather.
Keywords: Haiti, Fisk, Haitian Kreyol, Griots, Caribbean
Calypso Souvenir Booklets from Trinidad and Tobago
Calypso is a musical genre and art form with roots in Trinidad and Tobago and the English speaking Caribbean. Originally an oral tradition, calypso was used as a way to spread news, relay public opinion, and both educate and entertain society. Using calypso souvenir booklets dated 1945, 1947, and 1949 from the Benson Latin American Collection at UT Austin, this segment explores the calypso tradition through the lens of language and counternarrative.
Keywords: Calypso, creole, music, Caribbean
