Oral history, community, and work in the American West /

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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 twen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Embry, Jessie L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2013]
Temas:
1900-1999
Interviews > West (U.S.)
Oral history > West (U.S.)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Interviews
Manners and customs
Oral history
Social conditions
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
West (U.S.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
West United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Reflections. Stories of community and work in the Redd Center Oral History Program / Jessie L. Embry ; A two-way street : explaining and creating community through oral history / Barbara Allen Bogart ; Probing memory and experience : the untapped potential of oral history (re)collections / Laurie Mercier
  • Examples of neglected groups. "Everybody worked back then" : oral history, memory and Indian economies in northern California / William Bauer ; Bittersweet memories : oral history, Mexican Americans, and the power of place / José M. Alamillo ; "That's all we knew" : an oral history of family labor in the American Southwest / Skott Brandon Vigil ; "Colorado has been real good to us" : an oral history project with Japanese Americans in Weld County, Colorado / Georgia Wier ; Using oral history to record the story of the Las Vegas African American community / Claytee White ; Women at work in Las Vegas, 1940-1980 / Joanne L. Goodwin ; "Every woman has a story" : Donna Joy McGladrey's Alaskan adventure / Sandra K. Mathews ; Searching for the rest of the story : documenting the Dee School of Nursing / John Sillito, Sarah Langsdon, and Marci Farr ; The Utah Eagle Forum : legitimizing political activism as women's work / Melanie Newport
  • Essential sources. Creating community : telling the story of the Mormons in Fort Collins, Colorado / Linda M. Meyer ; Every mine, every cow camp, every ranch : oral history as field work / Leisl Carr Childers ; Oral history among the orchards : a look at the James George Stratton family / Kristi Young
  • Afterword : when history talks back / Clyde A. Milner II.

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