Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects for Youth

Period of Performance

10/1/1981 - 12/31/1981

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


Migrant Oral Histories: Youth Perceptions of a Vanishing Lifestyle

FAIN: GZ-*1967-81

Praxis (Berkeley, CA 94705)
Edward W. Kissam (Project Director: April 1981 to October 1990)

To support oral histories of migrant farmworkers, collected by migrant youth in their own communities. Resultant recordings and other products will focus on changes in migrants' lives due to such factors as mechanization, the influx of undocumented workers, and the shift from an oral to a literate culture.