A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project

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Title

A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project

Description

Starting with Asian/Pacific/American communities in New York City, New York University plans to conduct oral history interviews for the dual purposes of documentation and of asserting subjectivity of Asian/Pacific Americans. Interest in recording experiences of anti-Asian violence and xenophobia and issues from the perspective of healthcare and low-wage service workers who are disproportionately immigrants. The desire is to collect recorded interviews and digital copies of documents now, to be supplemented by formal oral histories when in-person interviewing is possible.

Type

Digital Collection
Physical Collection

categorical focus

A collection with a general focus on the pandemic, which includes Jewish materials and experiences

collection URL

populated place name

New York

state/territory name

New York

country name

United States

geographical focus

Northeast
Midwest
South
West
Outside the U.S.

material focus

images
videos
audio
texts or documents
oral histories
physical objects

Accrual Method

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