The Oral History Review articles from January 1999

The Oral History Review archives from January 1999

Identity and Forgetting.
January 1, 1999... There is no `work of memory' without a corresponding `work of forgetting.' Luisa Passerini(1) In this paper I explore moments of forgetting that occurred in an oral history research project that involved six female teachers. The...

Work, Race, and Identity: Self-Representation in the Narratives of Black Packinghouse Workers.
January 1, 1999... For much of the twentieth century, meatpacking was a crucial part of urban black life. In dozens of Midwestern cities, the packinghouses and stockyards offered thousands of African Americans precious industrial employment. The relatively high...

The Machine Boss as a Symbolic Leader.
January 1, 1999... While research on collective memory has progressively gotten a footing in historical studies, scholars of oral history have become more and more interested in the meanings of the distortions of people's recollections.(1) Indeed, the awareness...

Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band.
January 1, 1999... Scholars and writers in the burgeoning field of jazz studies are critically reevaluating some of the timeworn patterns of how mainstream jazz histories have been written. According to writers, such as those anthologized in Jazz Among the...

An Interview With Charles T. Morrissey: Part II "Living Independently: The Oral History Career of Charles T. Morrissey".
January 1, 1999... Part I of this oral history interview with Charles T. Morrissey, "Getting Started: Beginning an Oral History Career," was published in the Oral History Review 24, no. 2 (winter 1997): 73-94. The interview concluded with his difficult decision,...

THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS.
January 1, 1999... THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS. Produced by Stanley Nelson. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1998. 86 minutes. Sale: $195.00; Rental: $95.00; Shipping: $10.00. Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, an American literary classic,...

UNRAVELING THE STORIES: QUILTS AS A REFLECTION OF OUR LIVES.
January 1, 1999... UNRAVELING THE STORIES: QUILTS AS A REFLECTION OF OUR LIVES. Produced by Luanne C. Bole-Becker and Bob Becker. Cleveland: BB Sound and Light, Ltd., 1997. 57 minutes. Institutional Sales: $199.00; Community Groups, Quilt Guilds, Libraries:...

JESSE JAMES WAS MY NEIGHBOR.
January 1, 1999... JESSE JAMES WAS MY NEIGHBOR. By Homer Croy. New introduction by Richard E. Meyer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 313 pp. Softbound, $14.00. The outlaw is a classic figure in American folklore and oral tradition, as well as...

JOHN DILLINGER SLEPT HERE: A CROOKS' TOUR OF CRIME AND CORRUPTION IN ST. PAUL, 1920-1936.
January 1, 1999... JOHN DILLINGER SLEPT HERE: A CROOKS' TOUR OF CRIME AND CORRUPTION IN ST. PAUL, 1920-1936. By Paul Maccabee. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Press, 1995. 362 pp. Hardbound, $45.00; Softbound, $24.95. The outlaw is a classic figure in American...

RUNNING WITH BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TEN FAST YEARS OF RALPH FULTS.
January 1, 1999... RUNNING WITH BONNIE AND CLYDE: THE TEN FAST YEARS OF RALPH FULTS. By John Neal Phillips. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 395 pp. Hardbound, $27.95. The outlaw is a classic figure in American folklore and oral tradition, as well...

A MINE OF HER OWN: WOMEN PROSPECTORS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1850-1950.
January 1, 1999... A MINE OF HER OWN: WOMEN PROSPECTORS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1850-1950. By Sally Zanjani. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 375 pp. Hardbound, $32.50. Few occupations are surrounded by as many myths and stereotypical images as...

WOMEN OF COAL.
January 1, 1999... WOMEN OF COAL. Interviews by Randall Norris and photographs by Jean-Philippe Cypres. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 123 pp. Hardbound, $24.95. Few occupations are surrounded by as many myths and stereotypical images as...

COAL MINERS' WIVES.
January 1, 1999... COAL MINERSB WIVES. By Carol A.B. Giesen. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995. 170 pp. Hardbound, $41.75, Softbound, $14.95. Few occupations are surrounded by as many myths and stereotypical images as prospecting and mining....

WOMEN IN THE MINES: STORIES OF LIFE AND WORK.
January 1, 1999... WOMEN IN THE MINES: STORIES OF LIFE AND WORK. By Marat Moore. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 337 pp. Hardbound, $32.95. Few occupations are surrounded by as many myths and stereotypical images as prospecting and mining. Myths about the...

TWO SIDES TO EVERYTHING: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
January 1, 1999... TWO SIDES TO EVERYTHING: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. By Shaunna L. Scott. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1995.259 pp. Hardbound, $57.50; Softbound, $21.95. Few...

MINING CULTURES: MEN, WOMEN AND LEISURE IN BUTTE, 1914-1941.
January 1, 1999... MINING CULTURES: MEN, WOMEN AND LEISURE IN BUTTLE, 1914-1941. By Mary Murphy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.279 pp. Softbound, $18.95. Few occupations are surrounded by as many myths and stereotypical images as prospecting and...

THE BATTLE OF VALLE GIULIA: ORAL HISTORY AND THE ART OF DIALOGUE.
January 1, 1999... THE BATTLE OF VALLE GIULIA: ORAL HISTORY AND THE ART OF DIALOGUE. By Alessandro Portelli. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 354 pp. Hardbound $49.95; Softbound $19.95. Alessandro Portelli's new collection of essays on oral...

EVENT, METAPHOR, MEMORY: CHAURI CHAURA, 1922-1992.
January 1, 1999... EVENT, METAPHOR, MEMORY: CHAURI CHAURA, 1922-1992. By Shahid Amin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 265 pp. Hardbound, $40.00; Softbound, $15.00. On February 4, 1922, peasant volunteers for Gandhi's non-cooperation movement...

THE SEED IS MINE: THE LIFE OF KAS MAINE, A SOUTH AFRICAN SHARECROPPER, 1894-1985.
January 1, 1999... THE SEED IS MINE: THE LIFE OF KAS MAINE, A SOUTH AFRICAN SHARECROPPER, 1894-1985. By Charles Van Onselen. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. 649 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $16.00. Oral sources have been a mainstay of African history...

VOICES OF RESISTANCE: ORAL HISTORIES OF MOROCCAN WOMEN.
January 1, 1999... VOICES OF RESISTANCE: ORAL HISTORIES OF MOROCCAN WOMEN. By Alison Baker. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.341 pp. Hardbound, $74.50; Softbound, $24.95. These two books about Arab women are very different from one another in...

THREE MOTHERS, THREE DAUGHTERS: PALESTINIAN WOMEN'S STORIES.
January 1, 1999... THREE MOTHERS, THREE DAUGHTERS: PALESTINIAN WOMEN'S STORIES. By Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 234 pp. Hardbound, $24.95. These two books about Arab women are very different from one...

BINT ARAB: ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.
January 1, 1999... BINT ARAB: ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES. By Evelyn Shakir. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997. 226 pages. Softbound, $22.95. Evelyn Shakir's account of Arab and Arab American women's experience in the United States...

THE OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ ISLAND: INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE RISE OF INDIAN ACTIVISM.
January 1, 1999... THE OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ ISLAND: INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE RISE OF INDIAN ACTIVISM. By Troy R. Johnson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 273 pp. Softbound, $17.95. The 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island...

SOUTHERN JOURNEY: A RETURN TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
January 1, 1999... SOUTHERN JOURNEY: A RETURN TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. By Tom Dent. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997. 400 pp. Hardbound, $25.00. In 1991, Tom Dent journeyed through much of the South, visiting North Carolina (Greensboro), South...

POVERTY, CHASTITY, AND CHANGE: LIVES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NUNS.
January 1, 1999... POVERTY, CHASTITY, AND CHANGE: LIVES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NUNS. By Carole Garibaldi Rogers. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 323 pp. Hardbound, $28.95. Rogers begins her account of the lives of contemporary American nuns by placing...