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Rooster Town

Author : Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555664

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Rooster Town by Evelyn Peters,Matthew Stock,Adrian Werner Pdf

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Oral History, Community, and Displacement

Author : S. Field
Publisher : Springer
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137011480

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Oral History, Community, and Displacement by S. Field Pdf

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.

Planning a Community Oral History Project

Author : Barbara W Sommer,Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611326901

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Planning a Community Oral History Project by Barbara W Sommer,Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan Pdf

The second book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit walks you through all the planning steps to travel from an idea to a completed collection of oral history interviews. Informed by an extensive survey of oral historians from across the country, this guide will get you started on firm ground so you don’t get mired in unforeseen problems in the middle of your project. Designed especially for project administrators, it identifies participants and responsibilities that need to be covered, and details planning needs for everything from budgeting to technology, and from legal issues to ethics. Planning a Community Oral History Project sets the stage for the implementation steps outlined in Volume 3, Managing a Community Oral History Project.

Managing a Community Oral History Project

Author : Barbara W Sommer,Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315424958

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Managing a Community Oral History Project by Barbara W Sommer,Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan Pdf

The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit takes the planning steps outlined in Volume 2 and puts them into action. It provides the practical details for turning your plans into reality and establishes the basis for guiding your project through the interviews to a successful conclusion. Project managers are given concrete, useful advise on how to manage people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project. Volume 3 outlines details for developing the necessary forms to properly administer a community oral history project (sample forms provided). The authors advise how to recruit volunteers and interviewees and provide helpful tips for conducting thorough interview and transcription training sessions and how to make arrangements for the life and safety of the project one the interviews are complete.

Interviewing in Community Oral History

Author : Mary Kay Quinlan,Nancy MacKay,Barbara W Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315426167

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Interviewing in Community Oral History by Mary Kay Quinlan,Nancy MacKay,Barbara W Sommer Pdf

The interview is the anchor of an oral history project. The fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from interview preparation through follow-up. It includes guidance on selecting interviewees, training interviewers, using recording equipment, and ethical issues concerning the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Packed with instructive case studies, Volume 4 offers concrete practical examples and advice for issues such as pre-interview research, developing interview questions and points for guiding discussion, ideal interview settings and conditions, strategies for stimulating interviewees’ memories, acceptable communication techniques and behavior throughout the interview process, and rounding out interview documentation with supplementary materials and contextual information.

Introduction to Community Oral History

Author : Mary Kay Quinlan,Nancy MacKay,Barbara W Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315426037

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Introduction to Community Oral History by Mary Kay Quinlan,Nancy MacKay,Barbara W Sommer Pdf

The first book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit sets the stage for an oral history project by placing community projects into a larger context of related fields and laying a sound theoretical foundation. It introduces the field of oral history to newcomers, with discussions of the historical process, the evolution of oral history as a research methodology, the nature of community, and the nature of memory. It also elaborates on best practices for community history projects and presents a detailed overview of the remaining volumes of the Toolkit, which cover Planning, Management, Interviewing, and After-the-Interview processing and curation. Introduction to Community Oral History features a comprehensive glossary, index, bibliography, and references, as well as numerous sample forms that are needed throughout the process of conducting community oral history projects.

Lake Waubeeka: A Community History

Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467149464

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Lake Waubeeka: A Community History by Jeffrey S. Gurock Pdf

"In 1951, a small group of Jewish firefighters from New York City established a summer colony called Lake Waubeeka in Danbury, Connecticut. Today, it is a religiously, ethnically and racially diversified community of some 250 families... Over recent decades, Waubeeka has become a predomincately year-round settlement. While community demographics changed, a cooperative spirit has been passed from generation to generation."--Back cover.

After the Interview in Community Oral History

Author : Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan,Barbara W Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315435244

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After the Interview in Community Oral History by Nancy MacKay,Mary Kay Quinlan,Barbara W Sommer Pdf

Community projects often falter after the interviews are completed. This final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories and takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and for concluding the oral history project so that it is preserved and accessible for future generations. The authors give special attention to record-keeping systems and repositories, and provide several examples from actual projects to ground the information in practical terms. Charts, checklists, and sample forms also help the reader apply concepts to practice. Volume 5 finishes with examples of creative ways community projects have used oral histories, such as performances, exhibitions, celebrations, websites, and more, in order to promote history and engage the community.

African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland

Author : ROSA PRYOR-TRUSTY
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781483612348

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African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland by ROSA PRYOR-TRUSTY Pdf

African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland (Remembering the Yesterdays; 1940-1980) AUTHOR Rosa Rambling Rose Pryor-Trusty Xlibris Publishing Chapters includes 600 pages, 14 chapters of pictures & stories of: beaches, movie theaters, parks, you & your families, neighborhoods, your communities in Maryland; bars, clubs, restaurants, skating rinks, bowling alleys, popular undertakers and funeral homes, organizations, number writers, number backers, hustlers, gangsters, politicians, local and national entertainers, bail bondsmen, radio, TV personalities and newspapers reporters from the era of 1940-1980. You can email me at [email protected]. For more information, call 410-833-9474.

Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

Author : Jessie L. Embry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816599271

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Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West by Jessie L. Embry Pdf

Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors—together these hard-working members of society contributed to the development of towns across the West. The essays in this volume show how oral history increases understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. In many cases occupations brought people together in myriad ways. The Latino workers who picked lemons together in Southern California report that it was baseball and Cinco de Mayo Queen contests that united them. Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado, say that building a church together bonded them together. In separate essays, African Americans and women describe how they fostered a sense of community in Las Vegas. Native Americans detail the “Indian economy” in Northern California. As these essays demonstrate, the history of the American West is the story of small towns and big cities, places both isolated and heavily populated. It includes groups whose history has often been neglected. Sometimes, western history has mirrored the history of the nation; at other times, it has diverged in unique ways. Oral history adds a dimension that has often been missing in writing a comprehensive history of the West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have, in their own ways, made history.

Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community

Author : Fawn-Amber Montoya,Beverly Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429886539

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Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community by Fawn-Amber Montoya,Beverly Allen Pdf

Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community illustrates best practices for using oral histories to foster a closer relationship between institutions of higher learning and the communities in which they are located. Using case studies, the book describes how to plan and execute an oral history project that can help break down walls and bring together universities and their surrounding communities. It offers advice on how to locate funding sources, disseminate information about the results of a project, ensure the long-term preservation of the oral histories collected, and incorporate oral history into the classroom. Bringing together "town and gown," the book demonstrates how different communities can work together to discover new research opportunities and methods for preserving history. Supported by examples, sample forms, and online resources, the book is an important resource both for oral historians and those working to improve relationships between university institutions and their neighboring communities.

Nuns Across the Orange: A History of the Pioneering Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels, Bloemfontein

Author : Michael Sparrow
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nuns Across the Orange: A History of the Pioneering Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels, Bloemfontein by Michael Sparrow Pdf

When Sister Emma and the five women who accompanied her from England crossed the Orange River early in 1874, they exchanged the comfortable mainstream of Anglican Church life for the rigours of pioneering new works in an undeveloped country. Living conditions were primitive, travel was hard, and money was always in short supply. The newly-formed Community of St Michael and All Angels opened the first girls’ schools north of the Orange and the first hospital in the Free State. At Kimberley, Sister Henrietta achieved a world first through her successful campaign for the State Registration of nurses. Four Sisters were besieged in Kimberley during the Anglo-Boer War, and in Bloemfontein their Mother House became a military hospital. By faith and determination the Community recovered. St Michael’s School was raised to new standards of excellence, while the Sisters expanded their mission to include Lesotho and the eastern Free State. Decades of work with Bloemfontein’s sick and deprived led to Sister Enid becoming known as Ma Mohau (Mother of Mercy), and to national acclaim in the 1970s as South Africa’s Mother Teresa. This book studies the development of the Community’s religious life, and charts the progress of their work among all races from their foundation until the death of the last Sister in 2016. Across the Orange, their relative isolation from the strong centres of Anglicanism eventually contributed to their demise, but not before they had established an enduring legacy. The work they began in Lesotho is continued by the Community of the Holy Name, while St Michael’s School in Bloemfontein is recognised as one of the finest girls’ schools in South Africa.

Qikiqtani Truth Commission (English)

Author : Qikiqtani Inuit Qikiqtani Inuit Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192709562X

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Qikiqtani Truth Commission (English) by Qikiqtani Inuit Qikiqtani Inuit Association Pdf

Much Canadian writing about the North hides social, cultural, and economic realities behind beautiful photographs, individual achievements, and popular narratives. Commissioned by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, this historical work and the companion volume of thematic reports weave together testimonies and documents collected during the Qikiqtani Truth Commission. As communities in the Baffin region face a new wave of changes, these community histories describe and explain events, ideas, policies and values that are central to understanding Inuit experiences and history in the mid-20th century.

Black Loyalists in New Brunswick

Author : Stephen Davidson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506176

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Black Loyalists in New Brunswick by Stephen Davidson Pdf

Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia, among this group were formerly enslaved men, women and children who had been granted their freedom in exchange for joining the British side during the revolutionary war. In the colony that soon became New Brunswick, slavery was still legal. Many African American Loyalists had to become indentured labourers to survive in this new situation. Many others took up the opportunity offered them in 1791 to move yet again, this time to Sierra Leone in Africa where many Black Loyalists established a new colony on the coast of Africa where they lived free of slavery. The stories of New Brunswicks Black Loyalists are captured in the brief biographies of eight individuals—men, women and youths—presented by author Stephen Davidson. Through their experiences a picture emerges of the narrow limits to the freedom which the Black Loyalists were able to experience in a predominantly white and highly racist colony.

The History and Politics of Community Mental Health

Author : Murray Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0195029569

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The History and Politics of Community Mental Health by Murray Levine Pdf

"I recommend this book to all mental health professionals and students in this field; it provides the reader with a historical perspective that can add meaning, and perhaps even reassurance, to those who continue to care for the mentally ill in these uncertain times." --Hospital and Community Psychiatry. "Well worth reading, and graduate students, scientists, and professionals who are involved even obliquely with the field of mental health should add this one to their library." --Contemporary Psychiatry