Oral history interview with Jean Yves Point-du-Jour
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation, including partial transcripts, for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives. The textual transcripts are not verbatim of the audio recordings.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Morgan State University
- Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (1953-07-15)
- Duvalier, François, 1907-1971
- Duvalier, Jean-Claude, 1951-2014
- Point-du-Jour, Jean Yves
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Haiti
- Maryland
- Florida
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Haitians
- Refugees
- Migration
- Migrant workers
- Migrant labor
- Labor camps
- World politics
- Social history
- Emigration and immigration
- Racism
- Music
- Radio programs
- Vodou
- Language and languages
- 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
- circa 1992-1993
- 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 20 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Jean Yves Point-du-Jour spoke in detail about his work with Haitian refugees and migrant workers in Maryland and Florida; the working and living conditions of Haitian migrant workers in the migrant labor camps; the migration history of Haitians; living conditions and politics in Haiti, particularly under Duvalier dictatorship; when and why he migrated from Haiti to the United States; when and how he discovered Black American society and the racist system in the United States; the Haitian community in the Washington, DC area; the role of his radio program, on WPFW 89.3 FM, in the Haitian community in Washington, DC; the relationship between Haiti and the United States, including the overthrow of Aristide by the United States; the history of music in Haiti and Haitian music found in Washington, DC; and vodou in Haiti and the United States. Point-du-Jour also spoke about his parents, growing up in Haiti, how Haitians picture the United States, living in Baltimore and attending Morgan State, and why he speaks Creole and avoids speaking French. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include minimal white noise and static; interviewee can be heard clearly for the most part.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003363-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0