Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural and Community Resilience

FAIN: PN-293549-23

San Jose State University Research Foundation (San Jose, CA 95112-5569)
Saugher Nojan (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Documenting first- and second-generation Afghan American and recent Afghan refugee communities in the U.S. The collaborative project would record cultural resiliency and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic through oral history interviews, digital storytelling, and participatory archiving events.  

Resisting Erasure and Asserting Afghan Cultural Heritage and Resilience, is a community engaged humanities project that seeks to address this gap in knowledge by collecting and publicly preserving the stories, cultural heritage and resilience of first- and second-generation Afghan Americans as well as the more recent influx of refugees.