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Pedagogical Factory: How We Remember: Oral Historians
August 1, 2007 @ 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
How We Remember: Oral Historians w/ Stephen Haymes and other oral historians
What is the role of oral history in contemporary social movements? Come hear about new oral history projects and bring ideas or stories about your own.
Stephen Haymes is the author of the book Race, Culture and the City: Pedagogy for Black Urban Struggle, published by State University of New York Press. In 1996, his book received a national award from the Gustavus Myers Center at Boston College for “The Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America”. He is currently working on a new book that will be published by Roman and Littlefield Publishers, titled Pedagogy of Our Ancestors: The Existential Wisdom of African-American Slave Culture.