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- Title
- Restored voices: a living link to the past.
- Creator
- Smart, Cathryn, Norman, Sandra, Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361958
- Subject Headings
- Oral history
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Visions and voices: A community materializes its past.
- Creator
- Stein, Nancy Carol., Florida Atlantic University, Harris, Michael S.
- Abstract/Description
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The cultural construction of the past and the role it plays in the present have contributed to our understanding of our history and our culture. Expression and definition of cultural identity are important factors in this discussion and can depend on who is in control of the image and what drives their interest. In order to examine these issues, I explore the roles of authority, voice, and empowerment. I look at cultural representation as portrayed by the African American community of Delray...
Show moreThe cultural construction of the past and the role it plays in the present have contributed to our understanding of our history and our culture. Expression and definition of cultural identity are important factors in this discussion and can depend on who is in control of the image and what drives their interest. In order to examine these issues, I explore the roles of authority, voice, and empowerment. I look at cultural representation as portrayed by the African American community of Delray Beach Florida through an oral history project and self-representation through exhibits and public performances. I have documented the processes involved as the community gains control over the conceptualization of its past and creates an identify in the present. This example shows how anthropology can play a role that broadens the message of complex histories by the inclusion of personal experiences.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12888
- Subject Headings
- Visual anthropology, Oral history
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Khalique Ahmed.
- Creator
- Ahmed, Khalique, Pickering, Mark B.
- Abstract/Description
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Mark Pickering interviewed science professor Khalique Ahmed at his Boca Raton, Florida, office at Lynn University on February 10, 2015. The interview consisted of Dr. Ahmed's childhood in Jhelum City, Pakistan, his impressions of the past and current Pakistan, his graduate studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, his moving from Pakistan to North America, and his observations of the differences in Pakistan and North America.
- Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007869_p
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Junior Miller and Audrey Vickers.
- Creator
- Miller, Junior, Vickers, Audrey
- Abstract/Description
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Edna Pearce Lockett served in the Florida Legislature from 1949 until 1953. She was the third woman to serve. Lockett operated one of the largest cattle ranches in Florida and served her community until her death. Junior Miller has been the caretaker at the Pearce Estate since 1975 when Edna Pearce Lockett was in her sixties. Audrey Vickers knew Edna Pearce Lockett through her involvement with local politics and her journalistic endeavors.
- Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007884
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with John Moody.
- Creator
- Moody, John, Dooley, Terry L.
- Abstract/Description
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John Benjamin Moody was born in 1918 in Tampa, Florida. He worked for over fifty years for airlines in Miami in the maintenance and mechanical division. He moved back to homestead area to Lake Placid in 1993. Moody is related to Edna Pearce through Rev. Levi Pearce's marriage to his great great-grandmother's sister. He attended Pearce reunions at the Pearce Homestead as a child and much later as a retiree. Moody was instrumental in the restoration and upkeep of the on-site Pearce cemetery.
- Date Issued
- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007885
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with B.D. and R. E. Thomas.
- Creator
- Thomas, B. D., Thomas, R. E.
- Abstract/Description
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B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was married at the age of sixteen. After she married, she used inherited cattle to buy eighty acres at a tax sale in order to begin ranching with her husband. The interviews were conducted on that same ranch where her son, R.E. Thomas, herds approximately two hundred head of cattle today.
- Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007890
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Stephanie Difton Scott.
- Creator
- Difton Scott, Stephanie, McGee, Yasmin
- Abstract/Description
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On February 18, 2017, Stephanie Difton Scott, a former student at the Old Davie School, was interviewed by Yasmin K. McGee, a graduate student in the MA History program at Florida Atlantic University. The interview was completed in conjunction with FAU and the Old Davie School Oral History Project in order to preserve the local history of the Town ofDavie. Mrs. Difton Scott provided details of her ancestry and family, shared memories of growing up in Davie's African-American community, and...
Show moreOn February 18, 2017, Stephanie Difton Scott, a former student at the Old Davie School, was interviewed by Yasmin K. McGee, a graduate student in the MA History program at Florida Atlantic University. The interview was completed in conjunction with FAU and the Old Davie School Oral History Project in order to preserve the local history of the Town ofDavie. Mrs. Difton Scott provided details of her ancestry and family, shared memories of growing up in Davie's African-American community, and fondly recalled her experiences at the Old Davie School.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007873
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories --Florida
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The effects of variables in oral history: Palm Beach County, Florida.
- Creator
- Steinhauer, Lise M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines six oral history projects that were conducted over fifty years in Palm Beach County, Florida. The projects recorded the history of African American neighborhoods in Delray Beach and Boca Raton; individual lives in their place and times; the pioneer and Flagler eras in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach; and people, places, and events chosen by oral history students at Florida Atlantic University. As with oral histories generally, those studied inherently contain numerous...
Show moreThis study examines six oral history projects that were conducted over fifty years in Palm Beach County, Florida. The projects recorded the history of African American neighborhoods in Delray Beach and Boca Raton; individual lives in their place and times; the pioneer and Flagler eras in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach; and people, places, and events chosen by oral history students at Florida Atlantic University. As with oral histories generally, those studied inherently contain numerous variables concerning their (1) historical context, (2) format, and (3) participants, which clearly affect the outcome of recorded interviews and their written representations. Among the variables considered, this study demonstrates that it is the purpose of a single oral history or project that most significantly affects the others, and which is closely tied to the academic disciplines or backgrounds of its planner and interviewer. Although oral history is a tool with many uses, it is also a discipline within that of history. As such, oral historians are obliged to preserve raw history in a form that is protected, accessible, and useful for interpretation by potential researchers in a variety of fields. Regardless of their primary purpose, oral historians from all disciplines should remain aware of this underlying purpose: to provide for the future.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683207
- Subject Headings
- Oral history, Methodology, Oral history, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Louise Williams – ca. 1984 - 1985.
- Creator
- Williams, Louise (Interviewee), Evans, Arthur Dr. (Interviewer), Boca Raton Historical Society
- Date Issued
- 1984-1985
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000314
- Subject Headings
- Oral histories -- Florida, Pearl City (Boca Raton, Fla.) -- History, Oral history, Culture -- Study and teaching -- Interviews, African Americans -- Florida -- History
- Format
- Audio file
- Title
- Interview with Joseph Ornstein – ca. 2001.
- Creator
- Ornstein, Joseph (Interviewee), Lippiello, Shelly (Interviewer)
- Date Issued
- 2001-03-04 and 04-01
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/78792
- Subject Headings
- United States Army, Boca Raton Field, Boca Raton (Fla.), Delray Beach (Fla.), Oral histories --Florida., Oral history.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Oral History as a Means of Moral Repair: Jim Crow Racism and the Mexican Americans of San Antonio, Texas.
- Creator
- Dominguez-Karimi, Rebecca, Norman, Sandra, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Oral history’s purposes have metamorphosed from a record of lifeways and stories of the elite to a means of healing for minority communities oppressed by trauma. This dissertation focuses on the power of oral history to catalyze the restorative justice process of moral repair for victims—in this case the Mexican Americans of Texas—who were traumatized by the Jim Crow laws and practices prior to 1965. I researched the racial, socio-cultural history of Texas from its colonial days up to the Jim...
Show moreOral history’s purposes have metamorphosed from a record of lifeways and stories of the elite to a means of healing for minority communities oppressed by trauma. This dissertation focuses on the power of oral history to catalyze the restorative justice process of moral repair for victims—in this case the Mexican Americans of Texas—who were traumatized by the Jim Crow laws and practices prior to 1965. I researched the racial, socio-cultural history of Texas from its colonial days up to the Jim Crow historical era of 1876-1965 and utilized archival, legal, and historical sources for my study. Additionally, I explore theories and frameworks of trauma, structural violence, and restorative justice, and analyze twenty-eight oral histories from the Voces Oral History Collection (University of Texas, Austin). Lastly, I apply oral history methodology to collect seventeen oral histories for my own project, Project Aztlan. My findings reveal a community suffering from structural violence—a theory that argues unjust laws harm individuals as much as physical violence. The oral histories unearth several issues: first, both groups of narrators were victims of structural violence as a result of traumatic racism. I anticipated finding traumatic racism, but not on such a broad scale. The results reveal it occurred in all four corners of Texas. Second, these Jim Crow laws and practices targeted members individually and collectively through racially restrictive housing covenants, segregation of schools/public facilities, job discrimination, and disfranchisement or poll taxes. Thirdly, the oral histories demonstrate and legitimize the fact that the Mexican American community deserves atonement, apology and reparation from historically guilty institutions. The State of Texas battered them with mass lynchings, disfranchisement, racially restrictive housing covenants, school segregation, and discrimination, oppressing them for over 100 years. My dissertation concludes that the oral history process helps victims attain moral repair because, similar to moral repair, it also allows them the space to voice their stories of injustice. In turn, the oral historian validates their claims and reconciliation occurs when narrators received vindication through this reparatory process. This acknowledgment fuses broken moral bonds by equalizing members of society.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005963
- Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans--Texas--San Antonio, Oral histories, Jim Crowism, Racism
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Interview with Edmondo Catania and Angie Catania.
- Creator
- Catania, Edmondo, Catania, Angie, Diraviam, Domenica
- Date Issued
- 2019-02-18
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003482p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Nicoletta Sorice (D'Vanzo).
- Creator
- Sorice, Nicoletta (D'Avanzo), Diraviam, Domenica, Pezzullo, Viviana, Tiberini, Federico
- Date Issued
- 2019-04-29
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003483p
- Subject Headings
- Italian Americans, Italian American families, Oral history--Italy, Oral history, Oral history--United States., Italian Americans--History--20th century., Italian Americans--Florida--History, Immigrants--Italy--History--20th century
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Interview with Julie Hunter – ca. 2008.
- Creator
- Hunter, Julie, Dominguez-Karimi, Rebecca
- Date Issued
- 2008-02-07
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/79445
- Subject Headings
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Evers, Medgar Wiley 1925-1963, Ku Klux Klan, Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century, South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century, Oral histories --Florida., Oral history
- Format
- Document (PDF)