Call Number:

MSS 0661

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

• 15 minidv cassette
• 9 dvd

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

MSS 0661, Delaware Afro-Latina oral histories collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

2009

Form:

Interviews, Oral histories (document genres), DVD, and MiniDV

Abstract:

This collection of raw and edited footage of interviews of Newark, Delaware, area Afro-Latinas was created in Spring 2009 by students in a Women's Studies course (WOMS 410) at the University of Delaware. Included are Mini-DV tapes containing raw footage of the interviews and DVDs containing the edited interviews.

In the Spring Semester of 2009, Alvina Quintana, Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware, taught the course WOMS 410: The Study of Women's Studies: Pedagogy, Activism, and Material Culture. The course was a capstone course for Women's Studies majors who are about to graduate and explored the links between research and feminist activism, utilizing video production and the program Second Life. This course involved videotaping interviews of ten Afro-Latinas in the Greater Newark (Delaware) area. Twenty students in groups of two produced three-minute video documentaries drawn from their 60-90 minute interviews. A temporary exhibit on the project was hosted by the Center for Material Culture and in Second Life. Six documentaries were featured in an online exhibition, hosted in Second Life, and the exhibition was presented to the public on May 28, 2009, in a program at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington.

"Latinas Speak Out,"El Tiempo Hispano, June 5, 2009, 9.Claire Gould "Students use software for class, tours,"The Review, Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 136.Further historical information derived from the collection.

This collection of raw and edited footage of interviews of Newark, Delaware, area Afro-Latinas was created in Spring 2009 by students in the WOMS 410 at the University of Delaware. Included are Mini-DV tapes containing raw footage of the interviews and DVDs containing the edited interviews.

The topics covered in the interviews with these ten Delaware Afro-Latinas range from childhood, ethnic identity, and upbringing to career goals and social advocacy. The interviews were originally recorded onto Mini-DV tapes. Two interviews are accompanied by DVDs containing the raw, unedited footage. All ten interviews are accompanied by production DVDs containing approximately two to three minute-long edited interviews, which are interspersed with images and music.

Brief biographical profiles of selected interviewees are available in finding aid contents list.

1. Arranged alphabetically by interviewee last name.