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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"oral history interviews"”.
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Trading the Apron for the White Lab Coat: A Contemporary History of Dietetics in Canada, 1954 to 2016
This dissertation explores the history of the dietetic profession in Canada through the lens of a feminist sociology of expertise—a theoretical framework that I develop throughout this dissertation. Dietetics arose from home economics in the early 20th century. Although home economics has been the …
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Turmoil, Tirades and Transformation: The Wars for the National History Standards 1991-2004
… of consensus, and the impact of the National History Standards Project (NHSP) on local policies and curricula in history education. The influence of the voluntary national history standards movement is chronicled with the local development of social science standards-based curricula with the …
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Before Me, After Me, Through Me: Stories Of Food And Community In Eastern Kentucky
… text contextualizes and presents twenty-three oral history interviews conducted in eastern Kentucky during the summer of 2016 as a part of a Master of Arts thesis in southern studies. The interviews were conducted with people specifically connected to food, farming, and community activism in …
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Make Love to Your Mind: Dance, Disco and American Liberalism, 1970-1988
… American disco, 1970-1988, and argues that this history can give us an insight into how radically liberal values have spread into mainstream thinking through popular culture. Whilst disco’s embrace of racial and sexual diversity was once rebellious, and of the artistic fringes, these views can …
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Lost in transcription: Enhancing the typographic description of prosody in written discourse through dynamic typography
… typographic practice, speech visualisation and oral history. This research emerged from the practice-based investigation of a problematic situation identified within the field, drawing upon the exploration of an appropriate methodology that combines the design practice of the …
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Memories of the Struggle: Representations of Political Violence in the Highlands of Scotland and the Pacific Northwest of the United States
… of methods in my research project, including oral history interviews, experimental video and sound work, digital media production, community engagement, and archival research.
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A Narrative Herstory of Women's Studies at the University of North Texas
… and a more accurate reflection of their history and impact on society. At the University of North Texas the effort to implement Women's Studies was not begun seriously until the late 1980's. This paper covers the effort to establish Women's Studies at UNT. My thesis is that this has been …
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Improving Life Satisfaction of Elders through Oral History: The Narrator's Perspective
<p>Oral history is a method of preserving historical information through in-depth interviews. Because the process requires narrators to use remote recall while sharing their life experiences, it can also be considered a reminiscence-related activity. Before this study, the positive effects on …
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Facing the Storm: An Oral History of Elderly Survivors of Katrina
This paper is drawn from oral history interviews from elderly residents who survived the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. The aged faced similar challenges as their younger counterparts in the evacuation, aftermath, and rebuilding phases of the storm; however, their responses are limited by a …
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Reputation versus Reality: An Oral History of Vidor, Texas
… into the twenty-first century. By utilizing oral history, interviews with the residents (current and former) clarify how Vidorians see their past and form a collective memory. This memory study oral history project chronicles the historical narrative of Vidor and Vidorians based on oral …
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Tracks in the Woods: Identifying and Evaluating Historic Logging Railroad Systems within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
… time can still be identified. Archival research, oral history interviews and archaeological fieldwork were undertaken to identify and evaluate the many landscape features associated with the SRLC's timber harvest activities. The systematic identification and documentation of this single company's …
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The disciples of light: a way of seeing and the educational transfer of ideas linking spirituality and art among southern painters in the Hensche-Hawthorne tradition
… data for this study is a series of in-depth oral history interviews with seven painters who studied with Henry Hensche at The Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA, a school of American plein air painting that is linked with Impressionism. Charles W. Hawthorne, a painter who was a protégé of …
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Anglican Christianity in Birmingham 1945 – 1975
… church attendance will be considered alongside oral history which has been gathered from parishioners of one typical Birmingham parish during this period, St Mary’s Bearwood. Through the oral history gathered, this thesis will explore the changes that occurred during this period, considering the …
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Black American intergenerational perspectives on education, Black identity and Whiteness: A socio-cultural and historical analysis
… study, incorporating historical documents and oral history interviews to collect first person accounts of the educational experiences of 53 Black people reflecting 4 different generations. The study found differences in the salience of race/racism in schools for individuals based on …
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A narrative of Augusta Baker's early life and her work as a children's librarian within the New York Public Library system
… materials, secondary source materials, and oral history interviews. The research questions which guide this study include: 1) How did Baker use what Yosso described as ""community cultural wealth"" throughout her educational trajectory and time within the NYPL system? 2) Why was Baker’s …
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BLACKNESS AND BRITISH ‘FAIR PLAY’: BURGEONING BLACK SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN ONTARIO AND ITS GRASSROOTS RESPONSES TO THE CANADIAN COLOUR LINE, 1919-1939
… Pan-Africanist ideology. A close examination of oral history interviews, church records, activist organization records, and newspapers offers a thoughtful consideration of historical contingencies. These factors informed the everyday, local ways that Black people in Ontario challenged their …
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Native Music And Regular Gigs: A History Of The Maple Leaf Bar
The purpose of this work is to construct a history of the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana in order to determine its place and establish its importance in the musical history of New Orleans. Opened in early 1974, the Maple Leaf Bar is the oldest continually-functioning music club in the …
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Winged Women: Stewardesses, Sexism, and American Society
… to—marriage and family. This thesis includes oral history interviews with former American Airline stewardesses (including my mother, the inspiration for this project) and investigates how their experiences intersected with traditional gender roles in the American workplace and the shifting …
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Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation
… grieving and rebuilding in the midst of the temporal chaos of mass death and illness (crisis time). Refusing to portray HIV/AIDS as a discrete or singular phenomenon, these artists revealed how it intersected with every aspect of life, including artistic practice, thereby delinking their bodies …
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La Santa Muerte: Origin and Significance of a Mexican Folk Saint
… in Oaxaca City and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Oral history interviews indicate that, at least in some cases, Santa Muerte is associated curanderismo, or healing, a function far removed from the violence of narcocultura.
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