scholarly journals Taking a Stance: Teacher Researchers’ Historical and Political Positioning

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Currin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Teacher Research ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Teacher Researchers ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Oral History Interviews

With teacher walkouts and other forms of protest on the rise, EdD programs are beginning to frame practitioner-scholars’ work as activism. The purpose of this article is to explore and complicate that trend by interpreting data from oral history interviews with three long-term teacher researchers, alongside shifting historical scholarship on civil rights activism. Each participant cites civil rights activism as an inspiration and positions the rise of neoliberal education reform as a backlash to the 1960s that threatens the so-called teacher research movement. However, historians challenge the dominant narrative of the 1960s, highlighting behind-the-scenes conservative activism that did not garner the same media attention as liberal marches and boycotts. Consequently, while the participants’ stories offer abundant insight for practitioner-scholars as well as for the teacher educators who guide them, this article ultimately argues EdD activists should take a schoolhouse-to-statehouse approach.

scholarly journals The Making of a Movement: An Intergenerational Mobilization Model of the Nonviolent Nashville Civil Rights Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Cornfield ◽  
Jonathan S. Coley ◽  
Larry W. Isaac ◽  
Dennis C. Dickerson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Movement Mobilization ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Bridge Building ◽  
And Training

The 1960s-era, Nashville nonviolent civil rights movement—with its iconic lunch counter sit-ins—was not only an exemplary local movement that dismantled Jim Crow in downtown public accommodations. It was by design the chief vehicle for the intergenerational mentoring and training of activists that led to a dialogical diffusion of nonviolence praxis throughout the Southern civil rights movement of this period. In this article, we empirically derive from oral-history interviews with activists and archival sources a new “intergenerational model of movement mobilization” and assess its contextual and bridge-leading sustaining factors. After reviewing the literatures on dialogical diffusion and bridge building in social movements, we describe the model and its sustaining conditions—historical, demographic, and spatial conditions—and conclude by presenting a research agenda on the sustainability and generalizability of the Nashville model.

“We Just Thought We Were Superhuman”: An Oral History of Noise and Piecework in Paisley’s Thread Mills

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-196
Author(s):  
William Burns
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Repetitive Movements ◽  
Work Health ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Paisley, in the West of Scotland, was once the world capital of industrial thread making. Existing scholarship on the thread works has focused on the “great men” of the mill-owning Coats and Clark families, neglecting the experience of female factory workers. This article explores the hidden history of the experience of work-induced illness and disability over the long term, from the perspective of women who worked in Paisley’s thread mills. It draws upon extant oral history interviews and 13 new interviews with former millworkers. There is a particular focus on two work-health interactions: first, repeated exposure to the constant roar of machinery, which resulted in hearing loss; second, piecework - compelling women to work at speed and to engage in repetitive movements and awkward postures in order to increase their earnings - which had a debilitating effect on their joints and limbs in later life. This article examines oral testimony of the long-term health implications for Paisley’s female thread workers and reveals that women engaged in risky work practices not only as victims of the industrial process but with agency in their desire to earn increased wages. This agency was framed within the inevitability of the absorption of risk, and curtailed by mechanical, social and financial factors.

Baltimore '68: An Assessment

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Linda Shopes
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Scholarship Of Engagement ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Abstract This commentary on the preceding six articles identifies those elements that contributed to Baltimore '68: Riot and Rebirth's success as a public history program, even as it raises questions about the program's long-term impact. It pays particular attention to the way the oral history interviews conducted as part of the program created a more inclusive public conversation about the Baltimore riot. It also recognizes the importance of the University of Baltimore's commitment to what is often termed the scholarship of engagement by marshalling institution-wide resources for the program; and suggests commonalities between engaged scholarship and public history. Finally, this commentary suggests that while Baltimore '68 was enormously successful as a public humanities program, the depth and duration of its civic impact are less certain, and as a consequence, it raises issues simultaneously organizational, conceptual, and social.

scholarly journals “You Had to be Reporting Constantly”: COVID-19’s impact on U.S. weekly newspapers’ journalistic routines

2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110303
Author(s):  
Teri Finneman ◽  
Ryan J. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Community Newspapers ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This study examines COVID-19’s impact on the journalistic routines of U.S. community newspapers during the pandemic’s early months. Oral history interviews with 22 journalists and state newspaper association directors indicate weekly journalists discarded entrenched journalistic routines to better serve their communities during a crisis. However, structural issues with business models, internet access and legal definitions of newspapers hinder weeklies from fully embracing the digital era during a crisis and in the long term.

scholarly journals TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SABAR DRUMS: INNOVATIONS IN ORGANOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN SENEGAL AND THE DIASPORA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Patricia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
South African ◽  
First Century ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Apartheid Regime ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Jazz Performance ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s–50s through the 1960s–70s when New Brighton’s premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their artistry. The role of swing bands in New Brighton and surrounding communities as the training ground for members of the Soul Jazzmen and other local musicians of note is discussed, as well as how the Soul Jazzmen in turn were tutors for musicians of the next generation who became widely recognized artists, composers and arrangers. This is followed by a focus on the Soul Jazzmen and compositions by its members that protested against the apartheid regime in the 1960s–70s. The article is informed by historic photographs, newspaper clippings and information from oral history interviews that richly document how jazz was performed in service of the anti-apartheid struggle in New Brighton.

scholarly journals Stitching History: Filipina Garmet Workers In Winnipeg

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Camia
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Push And Pull Factors ◽  
Garment Workers ◽  
Filipino Women ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Push And Pull

This research project examines the working experiences of Filipino women who moved to Winnipeg in the 1960s and 1970s to become garment workers. Findings are drawn from oral history interviews with Filipina garment workers who arrived between 1968 and 1974. The participants, who have become pioneers in Winnipeg’s Filipino community, will be a part of Canadian history that has, so far, been poorly documented. This paper will also examine the garment industry in Winnipeg prior to the arrival of the first Filipina garment workers, as well as the push and pull factors which led to their migration from the Philippines.

scholarly journals Casting, diversity and fluid identities in Australian television

2019 ◽  
Vol 174 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Kyle Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Television Production ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
And Function ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article examines the practice and function of casting in the Australian television industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. It investigates the role of ethnicity and accents and the practice of casting actors of migrant backgrounds in Australian drama, variety and comedy. In an industry so often dominated by Anglo-Australian stories, faces and voices, the increasing presence of actors from non-English-speaking backgrounds and non-European ethnicities has been a key feature of the changing nature of Australian television production. By analysing ‘Showcast’ casting directories, supplemented with oral history interviews, this article suggests that actors have tended to adopt fluid or hybrid identities to navigate the casting process and find steady work in the television industry. The manipulation of identity, I argue, sits at the nexus of overlapping cultural spheres amid the challenging operation of multiculturalism in Australian media.

Civil Rights in an Extended Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-116
Author(s):  
George A. Seaver ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Land Area ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Government Interference ◽  
City States ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Inherent Part ◽  
The U.S

It is now apparent even to traditional civil rights advocates that the well-meaning effort to be inclusive has degenerated into identity politics and its violent offspring in universities, the judicial system, and public education. Reviewing these institutions, it is necessary to return to what civil rights were intended to be, to their inherent part of the original “extended republic” concept used by James Madison. Prior to the U.S. Constitution, republican forms of government were considered appropriate only for limited, homogeneous populations, or city-states. The extension to a large republic in terms of population and land area, to multitudinous factions, was Madison’s greatest contribution to the Constitution and the long-term “exceptionalism” of the U.S. republic. The widely-held belief that attention to minorities began in the 1960s with the “Civil Rights Revolution” is wrong as demonstrated by the extended republic’s dependence on them and its success. The multiplicity and competition of factions, sects, and interests, the greater the multiplicity the greater the security, was the reason for this success, and government interference was considered harmful to this end. To help us return to that concept is the purpose of this essay.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Minchin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
National Organization ◽  
Working People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Affairs ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Oral History Interviews

The introduction explains how the history of the AFL-CIO has been neglected, especially in the period since 1979, when Lane Kirkland took over from George Meany as president. What has been written - on fragmented parts of the AFL-CIO’s history - has usually been very hostile, particularly in terms of criticizing the AFL-CIO’s support for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, its bureaucratization, and its patchy civil rights record. I explain that my aim is to write a balanced history that recognizes the AFL-CIO’s achievements and its limitations, and focuses largely on domestic affairs. The book draws on newly-available archive sources, particularly unprocessed parts of the AFL-CIO Papers, and more than sixty oral history interviews conducted by the author. The introduction highlights the AFL-CIO’s ongoing relevance as the only mass membership, national organization fighting for working people in Washington. The AFL-CIO has performed this role – as the “People’s Lobby” - since it was established in 1955. The AFL-CIO speaks for all Americans who work, and - despite a media interest in union decline - in 2011 it still had more than 12 million members.

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