Tearing Up the Master’s Narrative
Stetson Kennedy and Oral History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11077666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Ortiz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279-289 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oral History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ohr/ohu027 |
| OpenAlex | W1971756040 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Stetson Kennedy (1916–2011) was one of the premier dissident writers in the United States in the generation before the emergence of the modern civil rights movement. Yet, despite his extensive work in oral history as a former supervisor of the Works Progress Administration unit on folklore, oral history, and social-ethnic studies in Florida, surprisingly little has been written on Kennedy’s oral history methods. This essay connects Stetson Kennedy’s radical politics with his experience interviewing generations of narrators who lived on the margins of the New South. Kennedy’s classic works, such as Palmetto Country, Southern Exposure, and Jim Crow Guide, had deep social impact because they were based on an intellectual approach that privileged the voices of ordinary people.
Art · Criminology · Economic history · Ethnic group · Folklore · Intellectual history · Literature · Narrative · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Social history (medicine) · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Race, History, and American Society · Social Work
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |