Oral history interview with Ruby Quartey-Taylor
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
- Quartey-Taylor, Ruby
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Ghana
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Women
- Manners and customs
- Festivals
- Rites and ceremonies
- Cultural pluralism
- Social values
- Emigration and immigration
- Health services administration
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Discrimination
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Interviews
- Culture
- Ghanaians
- 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 55 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Ruby Quartey-Taylor spoke extensively about culture, values, and traditions of Ghanaians, including the Homowo Festival, engagements and marriages, naming of children, funerals, the expectations of first both children in Ghana, and teaching children about Ghanaian history, cultural heritage and tradition. She explained there are no tensions between groups or regions in Ghana because they depend on each other with the values of community, cooperation, and cohesiveness. Quartey-Taylor spoke about her migration to United States from Ghana, why she choose the United States instead of Europe, living in Washington, DC metro area, and her educational path to earning an undergraduate degree in health care management and administration. She also spoke about her work building a children's hospital, including building alliances, in Africa; visiting Ghana; strength of community in Ghana and the United States; Ghanaian associations in the United States; and her future plans and goals. Quartey-Taylor also explained why and how she did not experience discrimination in the United States; her children assimilated; and her family's life and values. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise, static, and lots of very loud background noise, including talking, music, and banging of things. Interviewee's voice is intelligible 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-1712088000981-1712088003375-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0