The Oral History Review articles from December 1997

The Oral History Review archives from December 1997

Oral history and the social identity of Brazilian women under military rule.
December 22, 1997... Oral history and political contexts: One of the most striking aspects of oral history is its democratic potential. This distinctive trait has been extensively analyzed in academic discussions about the method and in the literature that...

Down home: perception and reality among southern white migrants in post World War II Chicago. (Chicago, Illinois)
December 22, 1997... I say "back home" when talking 'bout down South, but still I say Chicago is my home now too, cause I been here so long.(1) Uptown is not home! Home has never been anywhere except where I grew up. I never meant to stay in all...

Returning history to the community: oral history in a museum setting. (Frankton Junction, New Zealand)
December 22, 1997... Introduction Is it possible to create a museum exhibition structured around sound and story telling? This is the question I faced early in 1995, following the completion of a large community oral history project recorded by my graduate...

"Getting started, beginning an oral history career." (An Interview with Charles T. Morrissey, part 1)(Interview)
December 22, 1997... TRACY E. K'MEYER: Why don't we talk about how you first got interested in history, especially in oral history? CHARLES T. MORRISSEY: Ironically and paradoxically I cannot recall as part of the childhood experience how any prospective interest...

The Wobblies.
December 22, 1997... Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird. 89 minutes. Color. 1979. First Run/Icarus Films. Sale/16mm: $1350.00; Sale/Video $490.00; Rental/16mm: $150.00. Near the beginning of The Uprising of '34, Flora Mae Caldwell, a Fieldcrest Cannon worker...

The Uprising of '34.
December 22, 1997... George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Susanne Rostock. 87 minutes. Color and black & white. 1995. First Run/Icarus Films. Sale/16mm: Inquire; Sale/Video: $490.00; Rental/Video: $100.00. Near the beginning of The Uprising of '34, Flora Mae...

Aldous Huxley Recollected: An Oral History.
December 22, 1997... By David King Dunaway. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1995. 225 pp. Hardbound, $21.00. Readers of these four books are faced with a novel variation on the standard literary biography. In this form, which several of the books...

Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography.
December 22, 1997... By Sam Halpert. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. 196 pp. Hardbound, $32.95; Softbound. $15.95. Readers of these four books are faced with a novel variation on the standard literary biography. In this form, which several of the...

Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography.
December 22, 1997... By Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 408 pp. Hardbound, $35.00; Softbound, $17.95. Readers of these four books are faced with a novel variation on the standard literary biography. In this...

Talking About William Faulkner: Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner and Others.
December 22, 1997... By Sally Wolff, with Floyd C. Watkins. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. 196 pp. Hardbound, $24.95. Readers of these four books are faced with a novel variation on the standard literary biography. In this form, which...

School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap.
December 22, 1997... By Peggy Orenstein, in association with the American Association of University Women. New York: Doubleday, 1994. 335 pp. Hardbound, $23.50; Softbound, $12.95. In a junior high classroom, the teacher asks her students to imagine how their...

Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship.
December 22, 1997... By Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, and Amy M. Sullivan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 253 pp. Hardbound. $22.00. In a junior high classroom, the teacher asks her students to imagine how their lives would be different if they...

Daughters of Feminists: Young Women with Feminist Mothers Talk About Their Lives.
December 22, 1997... By Rose L. Glickman. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. 192 pp. Hardbound, $19.95; Softbound, $12.95. In a junior high classroom, the teacher asks her students to imagine how their lives would be different if they had been born as the...

They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School.
December 22, 1997... By K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. 205 pp. Hardbound, $25.00; Softbound, $12.00. In the late nineteenth century, the governments of the U.S. and Canada began the coerced education of Native American...

To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920.
December 22, 1997... By Clyde Ellis. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 250 pp. Hardbound, $28.95. In the late nineteenth century, the governments of the U.S. and Canada began the coerced education of Native American children in white-run boarding...

Singwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools.
December 22, 1997... By J.R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 582 pp. Hardbound, $70.00; Softbound, $29.95. In the late nineteenth century, the governments of the U.S. and Canada began the coerced education of Native American children in...

The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution.
December 22, 1997... By Chihua Wen. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. 168 pp. Hardbound, $53.00; Softbound, $15.95. The year 1996 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution and the twentieth anniversary of its end. Despite...

Caught in a Tornado: A Chinese American Woman Survives the Cultural Revolution.
December 22, 1997... By James R. Ross. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994. 175 pp. Hardbound, $26.95. The year 1996 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution and the twentieth anniversary of its end. Despite...

Chinese Awakenings: Life Stories from the Unofficial China.
December 22, 1997... By James and Ann Tyson. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995. 327 pp. Hardbound, $59.95; Softbound, $19.95. The year 1996 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution and the twentieth anniversary of its end....

Women Changing Science: Voices from a Field in Transition.
December 22, 1997... By Mary Morse. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. 291 pp. Hardbound, $27.95. Why are women underrepresented in science, particularly in the physical and chemical sciences and in the higher ranks of academic departments? Why do young women with...

Who Succeeds in Science? The Gender Dimension.
December 22, 1997... By Gerhard Sonnert with the assistance of Gerald Holton. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. 215 pp. Hardbound, $49.00; Softbound, $16.95. Why are women underrepresented in science, particularly in the physical and chemical...

Migration and Identity: International Yearbook of Oral History and Life.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Rina Benmayor and Andor Skotnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 223 pp. Hardbound, $57.00. The experience of migration offers a particularly interesting context for exploring personal and social identity. When people...

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.
December 22, 1997... By Judy Yung. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 395 pp. Hardbound, $45.00; Softbound, $15.95. Judy Yung's Unbound Feet represents one of only two published books which have offered an in-depth historical analysis of Chinese...

"And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest since 1855.
December 22, 1997... By Linda Mack Schloff. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996. 244 pp. Hardbound, $29.95; Softbound, $14.95. Lest one think that all Jewish immigrants lived in New York and worked in the garment trades, this interesting book...

Crossing Over: An Oral History of Refugees from Hitler's Reich.
December 22, 1997... By Ruth E. Wolman. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 225 pp. Hardbound, $28.95; Softbound, $15.95. Crossing Over is about the "fortunate" of Hitler's victims, the minuscule vestige of the Jewish communities Hitler sought to destroy. Ruth...

Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians during the Third Reich.
December 22, 1997... By Claudia Schoppmann. Translated by Allison Brown. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 159 pp. Hardbound, $24.50. Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich opens with a seemingly uncomplicated historical...

Harvest of Hope: Family Farming/Farming Families.
December 22, 1997... By Lorraine Garkovich, Janet L. Bokemeier, and Barbara Foote. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 246 pp. Hardbound, $24.95. In 1988 rural sociologists Lorraine Garkovich and Janet L. Bokemeier interviewed eighty farm couples in...

The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era.
December 22, 1997... By Richard Moser. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 219 pp. Hardbound, $50.00; Softbound, $18.95 In the fall of 1995 I taught a senior seminar on Vietnam veterans and the antiwar movement. On the first day of the seminar all...

Inherit the Alamo: Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine.
December 22, 1997... By Holly Beachley Brear. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 184 pp. Hardbound, $19.95. During the third week of April, San Antonians celebrate Fiesta. Parades, carnivals, oratory, oyster-eating contests, dances, concerts, art...

Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation.
December 22, 1997... By Paul F. Berliner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 884 pp. Hardbound. $85.00; Softbound, $29.95. Paul F. Berliner has written a monumental book in at least two senses: in its sheer length (more than 500 pages of text and 250...

The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput, Our Way of Making Prayer.
December 22, 1997... By Ann Fienup-Riordan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 320 pp. Hardbound, $75.00. Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell is a collection of the remembrances of thirty-three Yup'ik elders who...

Agayuliyararput: Kegginaqut Kangut-llu, Our Way of Making Prayer, Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell.
December 22, 1997... Transcribed and translated by Marie Meade. Edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan. Anchorage: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 1996. 236 pp. Softbound, $14.95. Our Way of Making Prayer: Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell is a collection of...

Polio's Legacy: An Oral History.
December 22, 1997... By Edmund J. Sass, with George Gottfried, and Anthony Sorem. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1996. 278 pp. Hardbound, $57.00; Softbound, $28.50. Edmund J. Sass concedes in the concluding paragraph of Polio's Legacy: An Oral...

Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression.
December 22, 1997... Edited by Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. 350 pp. Hardbound, $27.95; Softbound, $15.95. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression is history "from the bottom up," an oral testament to...