Readings

Oral History

Will be discussed:

• The Peculiarities of Oral History, Portelli [defining the field]
• Evidence, Empathy and Ethics, Blee [ethics]
• We Know What the Problem Is, Kerr [ethics/project design]
• I Was Never Much to Respect Authority, Shackleford and Portelli [Can read/skim][transcription/memory session]

Some essays that will inform our work together, not required reading:

• Race and Discomposure, Thomlinson [Race/Ethics/Project Design]
• If I See Some of This in Writing, I’m Going to Shoot You:, Meyer and Cruthers [Race, Collaboration]
• Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline Davis [Project Design]
• Whose Voice is it Anyway? Kim [Race/Class]
• Embodied Ways of Listening: Oral History, Genocide and the Audio Tour, High [trauma/experiments]
• A Chorus Line Returns, Robertson [Ethics]
• Unpacking The Knapsack, McIntosh [Ethics, Defining the Field]
• The Continuing and Unfinished Present, Boulanger [Trauma/Defining the field]
• Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities, Tuck [race and class]
• Capturing the Reflective Voice, Barnett & Noriega [Race, Interviewing] [link forthcoming]