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Week 4 Readings Discussion
Please take some time to look at https://34aveoralhistory.org/profiles/ and read one of the profiles from https://34aveoralhistory.org/profiles/.
Also, read the following article that Bridget wrote about her oral history projects.
- Bartolini, B. (2022). Story of a Street. https://urbanomnibus.net/2022/07/story-of-a-street/ .
The following articles are relevant, but optional.
- Explore the “Five Boro Story Project” website (https://www.fiveborostoryproject.org )
- 34th Avenue Oral History: Manuela Agudelo Profile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfq9i5ObR8 )
- Portelli, A. (2018). Living Voices: The Oral History Interview as Dialogue and Experience. The Oral History Review, 45(2), 239-248. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1093/ohr/ohy030 )
Week 3 Readings Discussion
Please take some time to look at Queens Memory Project, especially the Name Explorer and Podcast parts of the site for ideas on how to have students interact with neighborhoods and oral histories in different ways. Below are the other two readings Natalie Milbrodt will discuss:
- Sommer, B. W., Mackay, N., & Quinlan, M. K. (2013). Project Design. (3). In B. W. Sommer, N. Mackay, & M. K. Quinlan (Eds.), Community Oral History Toolkit Vol. 2: Planning a Community Oral History Project. (pp. 43-56). New York, NY: Routledge. (link in comments)
- Caswell, M., Douglas, J., Chow, J., Bradshaw, R., Mallick, S., Karthikeyan, N., Jules, B., Solis, G., Field, J., Robinson, M. D., Gonzales, P., Rodriguez, K. K., Saldaña Perez, J. A., & Robinson-Sweet, A. (2021). “Come Correct or Don’t Come at All:” Building More Equitable Relationships Between Archival Studies Scholars and Community Archives. UCLA. (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v00k2qz )
Week 2 Readings Discussions
Please review one or two of the Week 2 readings below and make a short post to gather ideas to discuss in the next session