SOHP

In honor of Black History Month, our second episode features the SOHP’s ongoing project on Back Ways. As you’ll hear, Back Ways, or black roads, were paths African Americans used during the Jim Crow era to avoid potentially violent interaction with whites. In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation between two American Studies scholars, Seth Kotch and Kimber Thomas, discuss the project; you’ll hear from Darius Scott and Betsy Olson, two Geography scholars at UNC, talk about how oral history helps geographers map the rural South; and you’ll hear advice from historian Ashley Farmer on how to find back ways out of difficult moments during interviews.

In honor of Black History Month, our second episode features the SOHP’s ongoing project on Back Ways. As you’ll hear, Back Ways, or black roads, were paths African Americans used during the Jim Crow era to avoid potentially violent interaction with whites. In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation between two American Studies scholars, Seth Kotch and Kimber Thomas, discuss the project; you’ll hear from Darius Scott and Betsy Olson, two Geography scholars at UNC, talk about how oral history helps geographers map the rural South; and you’ll hear advice from historian Ashley Farmer on how to find back ways out of difficult moments during interviews.

In our pilot episode, we discuss silence and power in oral history. Can oral history teach us to be better listeners? Can we learn how to pay attention--not just to what is being said, but to what isn't? We'll talk with Southern Oral History Program founding Director Jacquelyn Dowd Hall about a 1974 interview with Katherine DuPre Lumpkin that is shot through with silences; you'll get tips on how to handle it a question you ask leads to a long silence; and we'll hear clips from our collection in which three different women talk about the relationship between silence and their own activism.

In our pilot episode, we discuss silence and power in oral history. Can oral history teach us to be better listeners? Can we learn how to pay attention--not just to what is being said, but to what isn't? We'll talk with Southern Oral History Program founding Director Jacquelyn Dowd Hall about a 1974 interview with Katherine DuPre Lumpkin that is shot through with silences; you'll get tips on how to handle it a question you ask leads to a long silence; and we'll hear clips from our collection in which three different women talk about the relationship between silence and their own activism.

In our pilot episode, we discuss silence and power in oral history. Can oral history teach us to be better listeners? Can we learn how to pay attention--not just to what is being said, but to what isn't? We'll talk with Southern Oral History Program founding Director Jacquelyn Dowd Hall about a 1974 interview with Katherine DuPre Lumpkin that is shot through with silences; you'll get tips on how to handle it a question you ask leads to a long silence; and we'll hear clips from our collection in which three different women talk about the relationship between silence and their own activism.