DESCRIPTION
The
Latino Oral
History Collection is a curated collection compiled by the New Jersey Hispanic
Resource and Information Center (NJHRIC). The current selection focuses on
histories related to Newark, the city’s communities and major events. A
complete list of the Puerto Rican Community Archives’ holdings of Latino Oral
Histories can be found here. These additional interviews, covering
broader themes and geographical areas of the State of New Jersey, will be made
digitally available on the Newark Public Library’s (NPL) Digital Collections
website in the near future. However, researchers who are interested in
accessing a digitized interview from this list are welcome to contact the
NJHRIC at njhric@npl.org
to have that oral history fast-tracked to the website. Additional information
and indexes on the archive’s oral history holdings can be accessed at NJHRIC’s Latino Oral History Collection website.
The Latino Oral
Histories Collection presented here consists of interviews conducted by Rutgers
University students, historians, and archivists who participated in Dr. Olga
Jimenez de Wagenheim’s “Documenting the Caribbean Community in New Jersey”
project, the bulk of which were conducted in the late 1980s. At this point, all
the interviews that have been uploaded here are related to Newark, but some of the larger thematic
subjects of the collection include discrimination, ASPIRA, Inc. of New Jersey, education, and migration from Puerto Rico. A note to researchers:
A significant portion of the oral histories were conducted in Spanish, however
English-language item descriptions are used to facilitate uniformity.