Oral history -- Methodology

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Miren Uriarte is a sociologist and professor emerita of Human Services and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. These papers document her work as a sociologist and her dissertation research on the Latino community of Boston, Massachusetts. She collected publications and organizational records pertaining to the Latino community and conducted interviews with community leaders to support her research.

Overview In 1978, Cindy Cohen began "From Hearing My Mother Talk," an oral history project involving interviews with 11 women in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the theme of transitions in women's lives. Cohen received funding from the Cambridge Arts Council, which published her work in 1979. This oral history project inspired Cohen to initiate the "Cambridge Women's Oral History Project" in 1980. Its success led to multiple related projects, including "Let Life Be Yours," "Transitions in Women's Lives,"...