The Oral History Review articles from June 2000

The Oral History Review archives from June 2000

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
June 22, 2000... As the Oral History Review rounds out its first volume of the twenty-first century, the articles in this issue look back to the twentieth century and review how oral history can help illuminate some of its calamities: the Great Depression, the...

Culling the Men Out from the Boys: Concepts of Success in the Recollections of a Southern Farmer.
June 22, 2000... Historians examining twentieth-century transformations of the Southern countryside have shown us how larger structural forces such as world commodities markets, farm mechanization, and government agricultural policy changed the lives of rural...

Oralized History: History Teachers as Oral History Tellers.
June 22, 2000... LH: So yesterday you said you like history class real well this year, with Mr. Glenn. What do you like about it? Mel: What do I like? One, it's really not text-oriented. We work a lot from what he tells us, which is good because we're not...

Observational Reporting as Oral History: How Journalists Interpreted the Death and Destruction of Hurricane Audrey.
June 22, 2000... The newspaper journalist and the oral historian are involved in compiling information that relies on the preparation of questions for witnesses to events, the accuracy of witness testimony, and the interpretations of what the witnesses...

Navigating Life Review Interviews with Survivors of Trauma.
June 22, 2000... I'm sitting with a Holocaust survivor listening to her recount the murder of her entire family. To hear about such devastation is difficult. I go blank and numb, not knowing how to respond to suffering of such magnitude. I feel cheap somehow,...

At the Western Development Museum: Ethnic Identity and the Memory of the Holocaust in the Jewish Community of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
June 22, 2000... I was about twelve when I first saw the Jewish hearse, now in the Western Development Museum, in a storage shed behind the old synagogue. What was this strange, iron, horse-drawn wagon with the white Hebrew letters painted on the sides, I...

Recognizing Racial Privilege: White Girls and Boys at National Conference of Christians and Jews Summer Camps, 1957-1974.
June 22, 2000... Civil Rights histories have focused appropriately on the actions of non-White Americans to claim equal rights as Americans and to assert long-denied claims to freedom. The African-American community sparked the earliest postwar actions and its...

An Interview with Elizabeth Mason.(Interview)
June 22, 2000... Q: In 1959 you wandered into the Oral History office at the suggestion of the Columbia Placement Office? MASON: Yes, I really did. Q: Did you know anything about the office? MASON: I didn't know what oral history was. When the...

FAMILY NAME.(Review)
June 22, 2000... FAMILY NAME. Produced by Macky Alston. New York: First Run Films, 1997. Color, 89 minute video. Sale/video $440, Rental/ video $125. First Run/Icarus Films, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014, (212) 727-1711. When Macky Alston grew up in...

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?(Review)
June 22, 2000... WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? Produced by George King. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1997.26 radio broadcasts. 9 cassette tapes, $135.00; 13 compact discs, $150.00. Southern Regional Council, 133 Carnegie Way, Suite 900, Atlanta, GA...

THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION.(Review)
June 22, 2000... THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION. Director, Laura Dunn. 31 minute video. New York: Citizen Films. $30 donation requested. Citizen Films, 37-09 36th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101-1619, (718) 707-9832; e-mail, citizenfilms@hotmail.com. I...

THE MINERS OF WINDBER: THE STRUGGLES OF NEW IMMIGRANTS FOR UNIONIZATION, 1890-1930.(Review)
June 22, 2000... THE MINERS OF WINDBER: THE STRUGGLES OF NEW IMMIGRANTS FOR UNIONIZATION, 1890-1930. By Mildred Allen Beik. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 447 pp. Hardback $65, Softbound $22.95. Mildred Beik was born in...

FROM CAN SEE TO CAN'T: TEXAS COTTON FARMERS ON THE SOUTHERN PRAIRIES.(Review)
June 22, 2000... FROM CAN SEE TO CAN'T: TEXAS COTTON FARMERS ON THE SOUTHERN PRAIRIES. By Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 296 pp. Hardbound $25.00, Softbound $16.95. The yearly agricultural cycle provides the framework...

KELLOGG'S SIX-HOUR DAY.(Review)
June 22, 2000... KELLOGG'S SIX-HOUR DAY. By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. 261 pp. Hardbound $59.95, Softbound $24.95. Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt explores the history of the six-hour shift at the Kellogg's cereal plant...

ROCKING THE BOAT: UNION WOMEN'S VOICES, 1915-1975.(Review)
June 22, 2000... ROCKING THE BOAT: UNION WOMEN'S VOICES, 19151975. By Brigid O'Farrell and Joyce L. Kombluh. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996.317 pp. Hardbound $50.00, Softbound $17.95. Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt explores the history of the...

RACE & EXCELLENCE: MY DIALOGUE WITH CHESTER PIERCE.(Review)
June 22, 2000... RACE & EXCELLENCE: MY DIALOGUE WITH CHESTER PIERCE. By Ezra E. H. Griffith. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. 183 pp. $24.95. This book chronicles the life story of Chester Pierce, a prominent African- American psychologist, who...

MARTYRED VILLAGE: COMMEMORATING THE 1944 MASSACRE AT ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE.(Review)
June 22, 2000... MARTYRED VILLAGE: COMMEMORATING THE 1944 MASSACRE AT ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE. By Sarah Farmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 323 pp. Softbound $24.95. This is a balanced, original, and scrupulous treatment of a subject of...

BORDER LIFE: EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY VALLEY.(Review)
June 22, 2000... BORDER LIFE: EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY VALLEY. By Elizabeth A. Perkins. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 253 pp. Hardbound $45.00. Softbound $17.95. "What, to paraphrase anthropologist Clifford Geertz,...

SCATTERED ROUND STONES: A MAYO VILLAGE IN SONORA, MEXICO.(Review)
June 22, 2000... SCATTERED ROUND STONES: A MAYO VILLAGE IN SONORA, MEXICO. By David Yetman. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 352 pp. Hardbound $40; Softbound $19.95. In Scattered Round Stones, David Yetman examines the destructive...

COLORS ON DESERT WALLS: THE MURALS OF EL PASO.(Review)
June 22, 2000... COLORS ON DESERT WALLS: THE MURALS OF EL PASO. By Miguel Juarez and Cynthia Weber Farah. Foreword by Jose Antonio Burciaga. El Paso: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1997. 264 pp. Paperback $30.00. Bilingual Edition,...

CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS: JAZZ IN LOS ANGELES.(Review)
June 22, 2000... CENTRAL AVENUE SOUNDS: JAZZ IN LOS ANGELES. Edited by Clora Bryant, Buddy Collette, William Green, Steven Isoardi, Jack Kelson, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wilson, and Marl Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 442 pp. Hardbound...

"WE ARE ALL LEADERS": THE ALTERNATIVE UNIONISM OF THE EARLY 1930s.(Review)
June 22, 2000... "WE ARE ALL LEADERS": THE ALTERNATIVE UNIONISM OF THE EARLY 1930s. Edited by Staughton Lynd. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 341 pp. Hardbound, $44.95; Softbound, $17.95. Where did the American labor movement go wrong? What can...

MADNESS IN ITS PLACE: NARRATIVES OF SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, 1913-1997.(Review)
June 22, 2000... MADNESS IN ITS PLACE: NARRATIVES OF SEVERALLS HOSPITAL, 1913-1997. By Diana Gittins. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. 342 pp. Hardbound, $85.00; Softbound, $25.99. Diana Gittins presents a fascinating history of Severalls Hospital,...

UNBOUND VOICES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHINESE WOMEN IN SAN FRANCISCO.(Review)
June 22, 2000... UNBOUND VOICES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF CHINESE WOMEN IN SAN FRANCISCO. By Judy Yung. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 558 pp. Hardbound, $55.00; Softbound, $19.95. New books by Judy Yung and Huping Ling serve to highlight...

SURVIVING ON THE GOLD MOUNTAIN: A HISTORY OF CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN AND THEIR LIVES.(Review)
June 22, 2000... SURVIVING ON THE GOLD MOUNTAIN: A HISTORY OF CHINESE AMERICAN WOMEN AND THEIR LIVES. By Huping Ling. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. 251 pp. Hardbound, $59.50; Softbound, $19.95. New books by Judy Yung and Huping Ling...