The Oral History Review articles from January 2003

The Oral History Review archives from January 2003

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... In the first essay in this issue, Michael Nutkiewicz, who worked with Holocaust survivors while serving as the senior historian of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, draws on that experience to examine ways in which victims...

Shame, guilt, and anguish in Holocaust survivor testimony.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract This article examines how Holocaust survivors interpret the meaning of specific "iconic," all-absorbing memories that seldom find their way into the survivors' public account of their Holocaust experience. Utilizing the idea of public...

Sharing authority: oral history and the collaborative process: introduction.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Oral historians have a unique, personal relationship with the men and women whose life stories provide their source material. In his path-breaking book, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History, (1) Michael...

"We know what the problem is": using oral history to develop a collaborative analysis of homelessness from the bottom up.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract Using audio, video, and radio interviews, the Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project (CHOHP) has sought to foster the development of a collaborative analysis of homelessness from the bottom up. Designed to overcome problems with...

Collaborating with sex workers in oral history.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract It took several decades for sex workers to become true speakers, rather than testifiers to the speech of others. Tensions understandably remain about sharing authority with oral historians. This article reflects on attempts to share...

Collaborative oral history in a correctional setting: promise and pitfalls.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract This article examines the challenges of collaborative oral history research. Collaborative oral history--sometimes called "reciprocal ethnography"--involves the process of engaging our interviewees in the analysis of the interviews we...

A shared authority: an impossible goal?(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Abstract In this article I present a case study of the relationship between interviewer and narrator to explore the process of collaboration in the production of an auto/biography. This article outlines how the project originated and how it...

Sharing authority. (Commentary).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... "Shared authority" has become something of a mantra among oral historians. Coined by Michael Frisch as the title of his 1990 collection of essays, (1) this resonant phrase neatly captures that which lies at the heart of both the method and the...

Sharing authority: oral history and the collaborative process. (Commentary).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Though graduate school was a long time ago, I remember the seminar well. Our professor was very good at demanding that a lively but undisciplined group slow down enough to get clear about the argument of the books we tended, on our own, to...

Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Laurie Mercier. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Hardbound $49.95; softbound $24.95. In this impressive book, Laurie Mercier explains how class, gender, and community interacted with corporate and union agendas and...

From Grandmother to Granddaughter: Salvadoran Women's Stories.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Michael Gorkin, Marta Pineda, and Gloria Leal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. 256 pp. Hardbound $60.00; softbound $21.95. Drawing from interviews conducted in El Salvador between 1996 and 1998, psychologists Gorkin,...

In Our Own Words: Stories of North Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... IN OUR OWN WORDS: STORIES OF NORTH CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 1900-1960. Compiled by Sarah Boyer. Cambridge: City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997. 194 pp. + iv. Out of print. CROSSROADS: STORIES OF CENTRAL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,...

Irish America.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Reginald Byron. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 313 pp. Hardbound $75; softbound $27.50. In this year's Saint Patrick's Day comics, Dagwood chides Blondie for wearing green and speaking with a brogue, since "We're not Irish." She...

Life Narratives of African Americans in Iowa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Charline J. Barnes. Chicago, IL: Arcadia Publishing, Inc., 2001. 128 pp. Softbound $19.99. Often when one thinks of the state of Iowa, thoughts range from the birthplace of artist Grant Wood, actor John Wayne, and musician Glenn Miller...

Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... NEARBY HISTORY: EXPLORING THE PAST AROUND YOU. Second Edition. By David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000. Hardbound $69.00; softbound $24.95. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LOCAL HISTORY. Carol Kammen and Norma...

Night Riders in Black Folk History.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Gladys-Marie Fry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 272 pp. Softbound $16.95. The University of North Carolina Press has done a service to students of black history, folklore, and oral history with its republication...

Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 162 pp. Hardbound $55.00; softbound $19.95. We're just learning about the other side, about the different ways nothing can be done. ...

The Little Theatre on the Square: Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Beth Conway Shervey. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 143 pp., 32 pp. of Illustrations. Hardbound $45.95; softbound $16.95. In 1957, Guy S. Little, Jr. realized a personal dream when he produced Brigadoon at the...

The New Rank and File.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 262 pp. Hardbound $42.50; Softbound $16.95. Thirty years ago, Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers educated, inspired, angered, and awakened...

Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Beverly Bell, Foreword by Edwidge Danticat. Ithaca: Comell University Press, 2001.258 pp. Softbound $18.95. With this volume, Beverly Bell provides a voice for thirty-eight Haitian women to tell their stories of poverty and violence as...

Fighting for the Union Label: the Women's Garment Industry and the Ilgwu in Pennsylvania.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Kenneth C. Wolensky, Nicole H. Wolensky, and Robert P. Wolensky. University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 275 pp. Hardbound $45.00; softbound $19.95. When I was growing up in the 1950s in the small town of Plymouth,...

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Xiaolan Bao. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 330 pp. Hardbound $44.95. Mao Zedong is said to have observed: "Women hold up half the sky." Indeed they do in Xiaolan Bao's exhaustive study of Chinese women garment...

Yankin' and Liftin' Their Whole Lives: a Mississippi River Commercial Fisherman.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By Richard Younker. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 119 pp. Hardbound $50.00; softbound $25.00. Richard Younker's account of the life and work of Junnie Putman takes the reader through a full year in the life of a...