The Oral History Review articles from January 2001

The Oral History Review archives from January 2001

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
January 1, 2001... This issue includes an index covering the last five years of the OHR. This is only the second index in the twenty-seven years of the journal's publication. In his last issue as editor, Michael Frisch compiled a cumulative index covering volumes...

Togetherness and Isolation: Holocaust Survivor Memories of Intimacy and Sexuality in the Ghettos.
January 1, 2001... In the ever-expanding world of Holocaust studies, some have argued that we are quickly reaching a saturation of knowledge and that a popular environment congested by Holocaust institutions might actually have a detrimental impact on the...

High Crimes and Fallen Factories: Nostalgic Utopianism in an Eclipsed New England Industrial Town.
January 1, 2001... Despite their propensity to project both narrators and readers into the future, a fixation on the moral certitudes and strengthening legacy of the past is of central importance in many American utopian formulations. Sometimes futurism and...

"I'm a Keeper of Information": History-Telling and Voice.
January 1, 2001... "Did you have to say it like that?" "Like what?" I would ask my mother each time, somewhat perturbed, only slightly befuddled, and immediately self-aware that somewhere in that last sentence (or two or three), once again, I had stepped out...

For the Record: Editing and the Production of Meaning in Oral History.
January 1, 2001... Introduction Accuracy is perhaps the central goal of editing oral history transcripts for deposit in archives. Editors aim for accuracy in portrayal of meaning: getting what the narrator meant to say right and setting it down on the...

Crossing Cultures: An Interview with Alessandro Portelli.(oral historian)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... BETSY BRINSON: This is an interview with Alessandro Portelli on September 11, 1999 in Washington, D.C. ALESSANDRO PORTELLI: And we're going to be talking about my work in Kentucky and the practice of oral history. BB: Well, thank you....

THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN: STORY OF A MENDE SONG.(Review)
January 1, 2001... THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN: STORY OF A MENDE SONG. Produced and directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1999.52 minutes. Sale, $195.00 (Colleges and universities), $49.95 (Non-profit community groups);...

HOMECOMING: THE CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK FARMER.(Review)
January 1, 2001... HOMECOMING: THE CHRONICLE OF THE BLACK FARMER. Produced and directed by Charlene Gilbert. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1998. 56 minutes. Sale, $195.00 (Colleges and universities), $49.95 (Non-profit community groups); Rental, $95.00...

COMING FROM INDIA: A RADIO DOCUMENTARY.(Review)
January 1, 2001... COMING FROM INDIA: A RADIO DOCUMENTARY. Producers, Marty Goldensohn and David Steven Cohen. Narrator, Chitra Ragavan. Trenton, NJ: NJN Radio and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1998. 1 audiotape (50 minutes). Sale: $2.50 for libraries,...

VOICES OF OUR TIMES: FIVE DECADES OF STUDS TERKEL INTERVIEWS.(Review)
January 1, 2001... VOICES OF OUR TIMES: FIVE DECADES OF STUDS TERKEL INTERVIEWS. Producer, Tom Voegeli. Chicago: WFMT, 1999. 5 audiotapes (7.5 hours). Sale: $34.95. Highbridge Audio Company, 1000 Westgate Drive, St. Paul, MN 55114. (Originally published as Four...

OLD STUBBORN GUTS.(Review)
January 1, 2001... OLD STUBBORN GUTS. Producer, David Prest. London: BBC Radio 4, 1997.5 audiotapes (2.5 hours). BBC Radio Production Resources, 017 1-765-5306. While Studs Terkel is primarily known for his oral history books, he will be most remembered in...

WAVE WHEN YOU PASS.(StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, Durham, North Carolina)(Review)
January 1, 2001... WAVE WHEN YOU PASS. Presented by the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance, October 14, 2000, Durham, North Carolina. I walked into the local bookstore in Durham, North Carolina to begin writing this response for The Oral...

MEATPACKERS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF BLACK PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY.(Review)
January 1, 2001... MEATPACKERS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF BLACK PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY. By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. 176 pp. Hardbound, $33.00; Softbound, $19.00. Labor...

FAITH'S HARVEST: MENNONITE IDENTITY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA.(Review)
January 1, 2001... FAITH'S HARVEST: MENNONITE IDENTITY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA. By Sharon Hartin Iorio. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. 289 pp. Hardbound, $27.95. This interesting study demonstrates well how oral history can be used to illuminate...

THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: POPULAR USES OF HISTORY IN AMERICAN LIFE.(Review)
January 1, 2001... THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: POPULAR USES OF HISTORY IN AMERICAN LIFE. By Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 291 pp. Hardbound, $27.50. This book provides provocative and valuable insights into the ways...

AFRICAN-AMERICAN ODYSSEY: THE STEWARTS, 1853-1963.(Review)
January 1, 2001... AFRICAN-AMERICAN ODYSSEY: THE STEWARTS, 1853-1963. By Albert S. Broussard. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. 244 pages. Hardbound, $29.95 This carefully researched history of three generations in an African-American family does...

TO BE AN INDIAN: AN ORAL HISTORY.(Review)
January 1, 2001... TO BE AN INDIAN: AN ORAL HISTORY. By Joseph Cash and Herbert Hoover. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995. 293 pages. Softbound, $11.95. Historians seeking to expand recognition of the role of American Indians in our national...

THE PRICE OF A GIFT: A LAKOTA HEALER'S STORY.(Review)
January 1, 2001... THE PRICE OF A GIFT: A LAKOTA HEALER'S STORY. By Gerald Mohatt and Joseph Eagle Elk. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 226 pages. Hardbound, $29.95. Historians seeking to expand recognition of the role of American Indians in...

"I WAS CONTENT AND NOT CONTENT": THE STORY OF LINDA LORD AND THE CLOSING OF PENOBSCOT POULTRY.(Review)
January 1, 2001... "I WAS CONTENT AND NOT CONTENT": THE STORY OF LINDA LORD AND THE CLOSING OF PENOBSCOT POULTRY. By Cedric Chatterley and Alicia J. Rouverol with Stephen A. Cole. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 157 pp....

WHEN THE MINES CLOSED: STORIES OF STRUGGLES IN HARD TIMES.(Review)
January 1, 2001... WHEN THE MINES CLOSED: STORIES OF STRUGGLES IN HARD TIMES. By Thomas Dublin, with photographs by George Harvan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. 251 pp.+xii. Hardbound, $55; Softbound, $16.95. These three fine books on working-class...

BLACK WORKERS REMEMBER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF SEGREGATION, UNIONISM AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE.(Review)
January 1, 2001... BLACK WORKERS REMEMBER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF SEGREGATION, UNIONISM AND THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE. By Michael Keith Honey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 390 pp. + xxi. Hardbound, $29.95. These three fine books on working-class...

TALKING UNION.(Review)
January 1, 2001... TALKING UNION. By Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 277 pp.+xii. Hardbound, $39.95; Softbound, $15.95. These three fine books on working-class life and consciousness join a relatively...

JUST MY SOUL RESPONDING: RHYTHM AND BLUES, BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS, AND RACE RELATIONS.(Review)
January 1, 2001... JUST MY SOUL RESPONDING: RHYTHM AND BLUES, BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS, AND RACE RELATIONS. By Brian Ward. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 600 pp. Hardbound, $60.00; Softbound, $24.95. Just My Soul Responding offers an enlightened...

SEARCHING FOR LIFE: THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO AND THE DISAPPEARED CHILDREN OF ARGENTINA.(Review)
January 1, 2001... SEARCHING FOR LIFE: THE GRANDMOTHERS OF THE PLAZA DE MAYO AND THE DISAPPEARED CHILDREN OF ARGENTINA. By Rita Arditti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 235 pp. Hardbound, $45.00; Softbound, $17.95. In the last few decades...

VOICES OF RESISTANCE: TESTIMONIES OF CUBAN AND CHILEAN WOMEN.(Review)
January 1, 2001... VOICES OF RESISTANCE: TESTIMONIES OF CUBAN AND CHILEAN WOMEN. Edited and Translated by Judy Maloof. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 255 pp. Hardbound, $27.95. In the last few decades Latin American history has been...

VIVA BASEBALL! LATIN MAJOR LEAGUERS AND THEIR SPECIAL HUNGER.(Review)
January 1, 2001... VIVA BASEBALL! LATIN MAJOR LEAGUERS AND THEIR SPECIAL HUNGER. By Samuel O. Regalado. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 224 pp. Hardbound, $39.95; Softbound, $13.95. The history of sports has enjoyed greater success among the...

MIGRANT DAUGHTER: COMING OF AGE AS A MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMAN.(Review)
January 1, 2001... MIGRANT DAUGHTER: COMING OF AGE AS A MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMAN. By Frances Esquibel Tywoniak and Mario Garcia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 236 pp. Hardbound, $45.00; Softbound, $14.95. As teachers we easily forget how oral...

PLAY OF A FIDDLE: TRADITIONAL MUSIC, DANCE & FOLKLORE IN WEST VIRGINIA.(Review)
January 1, 2001... PLAY OF A FIDDLE: TRADITIONAL MUSIC, DANCE & FOLKLORE IN WEST VIRGINIA. By Gerald Milnes. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. 211 pp. Hardbound, $35.00. In Play of a Fiddle the author sets out to examine folk music and dance in...

BEFORE DEPORTATION: LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS, JANUARY 1939-DECEMBER 1942.(Review)
January 1, 2001... BEFORE DEPORTATION: LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS, JANUARY 1939-DECEMBER 1942. By Hertha Feiner, Edited by Karl Heinz Jahnke. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1999.86 pp. Softbound, $15.95. In November 1938, the...

FRESH WOUNDS: EARLY NARRATIVES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVAL.(Review)
January 1, 2001... FRESH WOUNDS: EARLY NARRATIVES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVAL. Edited by Donald L. Niewyk. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 414 pp. Hardbound, $34.95. In November 1938, the horrors of Kristallnacht convinced Hertha Feiner, a...

MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS: IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE IN TWO LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES.(Review)
January 1, 2001... MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS: IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE IN TWO LOS ANGELES COMMUNITIES. By Mary S. Pardo. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 322 pp. Hardbound, $59.95; Softbound, $19.95. Mary S. Pardo's and Armando Navarro's...

THE CRISTAL EXPERIMENT: A CHICANO STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL.(Review)
January 1, 2001... THE CRISTAL EXPERIMENT: A CHICANO STRUGGLE FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL. By Armando Navarro. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 438 pp. Hardbound, $59.95; Softbound, $22.95. Mary S. Pardo's and Armando Navarro's respective analyses of...