Oral history interview with Henriette Guelce, Joanne Durocher, and Elizabeth Arty
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Arty, Elizabeth
- Durocher, Joanne
- Guelce, Henriette
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Haiti
- Washington (D.C.)
- Topic
- Haitians
- Teenage girls
- Youth
- Identity
- Manners and customs
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Race
- Parent and child
- Discipline
- Religion
- Education
- Dating (Social customs)
- Emigration and immigration
- Music
- Interviews
- Culture
- Haitian Americans
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 2 Digital files
- 1 Sound cassette
- Date
- 1992 November 21
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Teenagers Henriette Guelce, Joanne Durocher, and Elizabeth Arty spoke about learning to speak Haitian Creole, their cultural identities, and being raised Haitian in the United States. They stated they identify as half American and half Haitian. Prior to interview on recording, Guelce, Durocher, and Arty sung in Haitian Creole. Guelce, Durocher, and Arty discussed their participation in Haitian culture, traditions, and customs, including dancing, cooking, music, holidays, greeting people, and clothing; misconceptions and stereotypes about Haiti and Haitians; race and color; their relationships with their parents; discipline; how girls and boys are raised differently; the Haitian community; the role of church and religion in their lives; teenage pregnancy, violence, and drugs; public school versus parochial school; their Haitian friends; dating; why their parents immigrated to the United States; and their desire for more Haitian youth and social clubs and programs, and afro-centric education. Durocher described her experience in Haiti when she attended a funeral there, and being teased in school because she is Haitian. Interview is in English and (minimal) Haitian Creole. Digital audio files include very loud white noise and static; interviewees can be heard clearly for the most part. Additional note, according to interview tape log, Wilner Domond and Emmanuel Content were also present during interview, and at least one of them also spoke during the interview.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003361-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0