Oral history interview with Jennifer Keane-Dawes
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
- Howard University
- University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica)
- Keane-Dawes, Jennifer Maria
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Jamaica
- West Indies
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Women
- Journalists
- Women journalists
- Child rearing
- Discipline
- Education
- Manners and customs
- Religion
- Emigration and immigration
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Interpersonal relations
- People with disabilities
- Deaf
- Interviews
- Culture
- Jamaicans
- 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
- 1993 March 06
- 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
- Jennifer Keane-Dawes spoke about her siblings and parents; her father as the disciplinarian; and her role in the family; her educational experience from infant school through high school, including extracurricular activities, in Jamaica; her father's role in her education; and her after school chores and strict upbringing. She explained in-detail her thoughts about discipline and abuse; discipline in Jamaica versus United States; and how she disciplined her child. Keane-Dawes explained what she knew about the partner system in Jamaica, the differences in its implementation in Jamaica versus the United States, and that her sister and her mother ran partner programs in the United States and Jamaica, respectively. Keane-Dawes also spoke about her job, legal reporting and journalism, after high school in Jamaica; educational and campus life experience at University of the West Indies; producing and editing television program; and the role of religion in her life. She explained in detail when and why she immigrated from Jamaica to United States; her marriage in Jamaica and divorce; her first experiences in the United States; taking care of her son; her educational experience at Howard University; why and how she wants to use her journalist skills to help disabled people, particularly deaf people, in the Jamaican community; differences in culture and values between United States and Jamaica; and why she wants to return to Jamaica to live. Keane-Dawes also talked about her relationships, her jobs, and involvement in organizations, community and religious, in the United States. After Jennifer Keane-Dawes completed her interview, her young son, Thomas Keane-Dawes, was very briefly interviewed about some of his favorite things, what he liked about the United States, why he wanted to live in Jamaica, and Jamaican food. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static; and some background noise, including talking and/or music. 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-1712088000981-1712088003364-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0