Contesting "The Way the Almighty Wants It": Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection

Oral History in the History of Mexican Americans: Reflections from Four Decades in the Field

“…Indeed, there is a great need for a study of these interviews, particularly with an eye to the unequal power dynamics that prevailed in this era when discrimination against US Mexicans had become entrenched. 16 That the senior members of history departments in the 1970s were men (and they were all men) who had come of age in the primitive era before electronic recording may have contributed to their relative lack of interest in oral history. Or to put it another way, the advent of cassette tapes reinforced the tendency of the rising baby boomer generation to utilize oral history as one of the main tools in documenting history from the ground up, with these two factors reinforcing each other.…”