History 4850 oral histories and journals

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 14-17-3743

Scope and content

Oral history tapes (CDs) and transcripts with immigrants to the Ithaca community from Venezuela, Guyana, India, Cuba, Israel, and Burma, including: Katherine Broadbent interviewing Mariana Torres-Viso (CD-484); Mollie Lauterback interviewing Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (CD-489); Susan E. Millor interviewing Tomás E. Castellanos (CD-499); Alangaram Ramalingam interviewing Vidhya Ramalingam (CD-490); Sunhye Sohn interview with Yanka Diaz (CD-492, 495); Di Wu interviewing Yuval Grossman (CD-496, 498); and Jessica Yoon interviewing Minfong Ho (DVD-513). Also, journals from Emma Banks on Cecilia Montaner-Vargas; Priscilla Elizondo on Friends of Farmworkers; Daniel Rathauser on tutoring Puerto Rican students in the DeWitt Junior High School ESL program; Michelle Rodriquez on Catholic Charities programs for immigrants; and Stephanie Claudette Torres on the Catholic Charities immigrant programs.

Dates

2008.

Creator

Cornell University. Department of History (Organization)
Broadbent, Katherine (Interviewer, Person)
Lauterback, Mollie (Interviewer, Person)
Millor, Susan E. (Interviewer, Person)
Ramalingam, Alangaram (Interviewer, Person)
Sohn, Sunhye (Interviewer, Person)
Wu, Di (Interviewer, Person)
Yoon, Jessica (Interviewer, Person)
Banks, Emma. (Person)
Elizondo, Priscilla. (Person)
Rathauser, Daniel. (Person)
Rodriguez, Michelle. (Person)
Torres, Stephanie Claudette. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Individuals named in the journals may not be published or otherwise released in such form that any individual mentioned in the records can be identified.

Biographical / Historical

This seminar focused on immigration to the United States since 1965. As part of the class assignment, students participated in a service-learning project within the Ithaca/Tompkins County area and kept journals documenting their projects or interviewed immigrants about their experiences.