The Oral History Review articles from June 1997

The Oral History Review archives from June 1997

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family.
June 22, 1997... The concurrent publication of these four volumes on Japanese Americans during the semicentennial observance of their World War II eviction and detention (the defining historical event for Japanese America) is less significant for Oral History...

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982.
June 22, 1997... The concurrent publication of these four volumes on Japanese Americans during the semicentennial observance of their World War II eviction and detention (the defining historical event for Japanese America) is less significant for Oral History...

The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley.
June 22, 1997... The concurrent publication of these four volumes on Japanese Americans during the semicentennial observance of their World War II eviction and detention (the defining historical event for Japanese America) is less significant for Oral History...

Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz.
June 22, 1997... The concurrent publication of these four volumes on Japanese Americans during the semicentennial observance of their World War II eviction and detention (the defining historical event for Japanese America) is less significant for Oral History...

Underground Harmonies: Music and Politics in the Subways of New York.
June 22, 1997... Underground Harmonies is the story of music-making in the New York City subways in the 1980s and 1990s. It is a collective portrait of subway musicians and their audiences and of the city and transit authority personnel who try to manage what...

The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California.
June 22, 1997... These two books about Monterey Park by Timothy P. Fong and John Horton, respectively, bespeak the growing scholarly, as well as media, interest generated by this small city of sixty thousand people. Once a predominantly Anglo suburb located a...

The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California.
June 22, 1997... These two books about Monterey Park by Timothy P. Fong and John Horton, respectively, bespeak the growing scholarly, as well as media, interest generated by this small city of sixty thousand people. Once a predominantly Anglo suburb located a...

Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians.
June 22, 1997... The publication of two books that use the methodology of oral history to examine Palestine and the Palestinians is a great achievement for both the discipline and the Palestinians themselves. For it one of the main objectives of oral history...

An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years.
June 22, 1997... An American Feminist in Palestine is the story of a feminist and a Jew raised up by her father, a rabbi, on the Jewish faith's teaching of "just and unjust" (3). She first questions the standard accounts of the creation of Israel when,...

Mexican Lives.
June 22, 1997... Scholarly studies that have used oral history to examine Mexican society have tended to focus on some social groups while excluding others. Oscar Lewis, one of the practitioners of oral history who has most influenced mainstream historians,...

Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
June 22, 1997... Scholarly studies that have used oral history to examine Mexican society have tended to focus on some social groups while excluding others. Oscar Lewis, one of the practitioners of oral history who has most influenced mainstream historians,...

God and Caesar at the Rio Grande: Sanctuary and the Politics of Religion.
June 22, 1997... At the Oral History Association annual meeting in 1993, Richard Candida Smith challenged oral historians to add religion as a heuristic when theorizing their work, in other words, to problematize it as we do the race, class, and gender of...

The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism.
June 22, 1997... In its rush to cover such events as the Oklahoma City bombing and the federal authorities' standoff with the Montana Freemen, the mass media has treated the far Right's efflorescence in a shallow and sensationalistic manner. While media...

This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy.
June 22, 1997... In its rush to cover such events as the Oklahoma City bombing and the federal authorities' standoff with the Montana Freemen, the mass media has treated the far Right's efflorescence in a shallow and sensationalistic manner. While media...

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal.
June 22, 1997... The story of the migrant farmworkers of the Great Depression continues to draw the attention of readers in the 1940s. A similar fascination has drawn historians to the subject as well, and with their involvement has come evidence illuminating...

Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942.
June 22, 1997... The story of the migrant farmworkers of the Great Depression continues to draw the attention of readers in the 1940s. A similar fascination has drawn historians to the subject as well, and with their involvement has come evidence illuminating...

Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940.
June 22, 1997... Mary Neth's new book hammers another nail into the coffin of the myth of the independent and individual male farmer that has traditionally shaped United States agricultural historiography and public policy. Family farms, Neth asserts, are just...

Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940.
June 22, 1997... Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, director of the Public History Program at Howard University, has written a book about the Great Migration that relies on 123 oral interviews with African American women who left their homes and shrecropper existence in...

Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley.
June 22, 1997... Thad Sitton has consistently blended the methods of oral history with solid documentary research to produce important historical monographs about the Lone Star State. His seventh book, entitled Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big...

Children of Los Alamos: An Oral History of the Town Where the Atomic Age Began.
June 22, 1997... Children of Los Alamos explores the ironic conflicts between children's need for personal security and the security needs of a top-secret scientific laboratory. This well-written book is based on recent interviews of people who were children...

The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement.
June 22, 1997... When George Jackson, the leading theoretician of the radical prison movement, was killed in a controversial "shoot-out" by prison guards in 1971, a unique political phenomenon that had emerged out of prison reform policies in the late 1950s...

Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America.
June 22, 1997... Paul Avrich's many works have earned him a well-deserved reputation as the country's foremost historian of anarchism. In his most recent book Avrich has assembled 180 interviews he conducted with anarchists in the United States over the last...

Aging Political Activists: Personal Narratives from the Old Left.
June 22, 1997... Raised in "the milieu of the Jewish Left subculture," David P. Shuldiner, a specialist in gerontological social science, returns to the cultural world of his youth to explore in some depth a host to important questions pertaining to...

American Lives: Looking Back at the Children of the Great Depression.
June 22, 1997... American Lives is a comprehensive analysis of the psychological development and life course progress of over 300 persons who were studied extensively for over six decades as part of three distinct investigations. The author, John Clausen, is a...

Interviewing in Depth: The Interactive-Relational Approach.
June 22, 1997... Not that long ago, traditional scholarship dismissed oral history interviews for not being as objective (or true) as other forms of documentation or as scientific as questionnaire-based interviewing. Then as various disciplines began...

The Active Interview.
June 22, 1997... Not that long ago, traditional scholarship dismissed oral history interviews for not being as objective (or true) as other forms of documentation or as scientific as questionnaire-based interviewing. Then as various disciplines began...

Interactive Oral History Interviewing.
June 22, 1997... Not that long ago, traditional scholarship dismissed oral history interviews for not being as objective (or true) as other forms of documentation or as scientific as questionnaire-based interviewing. Then as various disciplines began...

The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend.
June 22, 1997... William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and a pioneer in the field of oral history, is emergin from the limbo to which he was banished half a century ago by the reigning Lincoln scholar of the era, James G. Randall. In the years...

The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln.
June 22, 1997... William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner and a pioneer in the field of oral history, is emergin from the limbo to which he was banished half a century ago by the reigning Lincoln scholar of the era, James G. Randall. In the years...

The Labyrinth of Memory: Ethnographic Journeys.
June 22, 1997... The Labyrinth of Memory, a collaboration arising from a session at the 1992 American Anthropological Association meeting, consists of an introduction outlining a schema for making sense of memory and ten essays which draw upon interviews,...

"What Koinonia was all about": the role of memory in a changing community. (interracial cooperative community)
June 22, 1997... Koinonia Partners is an interracial cooperative community and service organization in Southwest Georgia, which, between 1990 and 1995, struggled to understand its past and redefine its future mission. For fifty years the members of Koinonia...

"My God, they just have other interests." (the life of a Catholic non-Aryan priest's life under National Socialism)
June 22, 1997... This article seeks to explore how experiences of stigmatization and persecution altered the relationships of Catholic Germans of Jewish Ancestry to identity-generating groups such as Catholics, Germans, and Jews. How did they experience and...

"Do I like them too much?": effects of the oral history interview on the interviewer and vice-versa.
June 22, 1997... Twenty years ago this might have been an unspeakable topic. Oral history textbooks and articles in the Oral History Review scarcely mentioned this in the 1970s and early 1980s. My students would talk about their reactions to an interviewing...

The struggle for a history without adjectives: a note on using oral sources in Spain.
June 22, 1997... Contemporary Spanish historiography has been strongly influenced by the impact of a long standing repression. For most progressive historians, even in the seventies, the only years worth studying were the 1930s, those of the mythic and desired...

An interview with Willa K. Baum: a career at the Regional Oral History Office.(Interview)
June 22, 1997... Tracy E. K'Meyer: I want to start with your educational background and how you got to be a historian. When you were in school, what were your career goals? Willa K. Baum: I guess I didn't know, and I didn't have any definite career...