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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Lionel Spencer Interview, Mark Naison
Lionel Spencer Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summarized by Alan C. Ventura
In this heartfelt interview, Carlos Rico of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project meets with Lionel Spencer to discuss the impact that COVID-19 has had on his life as a son and father. Spencer highlights his close relationship with his brothers and the challenges they have faced together, expressing admiration for their bond and hoping to have a similar connection with his own family going forward. Both Rico and Spencer take a deep dive into the challenges people face in adjusting to the lack of social interactions and their interest in understanding the impact of …
Wesley Caines Interview, Mark Naison
Wesley Caines Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Transcribed and summarized by Alan C. Ventura
In an engaging and informative interview as part of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project, Mr. Wesley Caines—former DIrector of Community Engagement and standing Chief of Staff at Bronx Defenders—sits down with various other Fordham University interviewers to discuss the impact of the pandemic on the organization's holistic defense approach and the challenges faced in providing housing for individuals released from detention. Caines also shares the success story of helping a client in ICE detention and sheds some light on the prospect of positive policy change in New York, the securing of funds …
Maria Aponte Interview, Mark Naison
Maria Aponte Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Disciplines
African American Studies
Abstract
Summary by Jocelyn Defex.
This interview for the Bronx African American History Project was with Maria Aponte, a Non-profit organization founder, educator, author, poet, performance artist, and community arts activist. A Fordham University alum, Carlos Rico, interviewed her for the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project.
Aponte discusses her childhood; she grew up in “El Barrio” (Washington Heights, NY) and moved to the Bronx in the late 70s. Before becoming an activist, she was a theater actress, and she felt that her role helped to break down Latino, women, and person-of-color stereotypes in the theater. At …
Luz Solis Interview, Mark Naison
Luz Solis Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Ms. Luz Soliz-Ramos , Gil
Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated ©
Interviewers: Dr. Mark Naison, Dr. Lisa Betty, Lucy Blanco
Date: December 10, 2023
Summarized by Amy Rini January 28, 2024
Ms. Luz Soliz-Ramos from Honduras, is a Garifuna dancer, choreographer, teacher, and activist. Soliz-Ramos is the founder of the Bronx based Garifuna Heritage Center for the Arts and Culture and Co-Choreographer & Artistic Director of the Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theatre, which was established as the Hamalali Wayunagu Garifuna Dance Company in 1992.
Immigration from Honduras wasn’t easy for those who only spoke Garifuna and not Spanish, …
Will Calhoun Interview, Mark Naison
Will Calhoun Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summary by Eliza Anderson.
Will Calhoun is a Grammy award-winning drummer, producer, songwriter, and Bronx native.
He was born in Brooklyn but moved to the Northeast Bronx with his parents shortly after. He attended Lutheran schools as a kid in an Italian neighborhood, where he recalls having to run away from men with bats getting to and from school before switching to Evander Childs for high school. At Evander, he encountered Drummer’s Collective and Horacee Arnold, who introduced him to musicians like Elvin Jones and took him to jazz clubs in the city.
Calhoun’s first introduction to music came from …
Will Calhoun Interview, Mark Naison
Will Calhoun Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summary by Eliza Anderson.
Will Calhoun is a Grammy award-winning drummer, producer, songwriter, and Bronx native.
He was born in Brooklyn but moved to the Northeast Bronx with his parents shortly after. He attended Lutheran schools as a kid in an Italian neighborhood, where he recalls having to run away from men with bats getting to and from school before switching to Evander Childs for high school. At Evander, he encountered Drummer’s Collective and Horacee Arnold, who introduced him to musicians like Elvin Jones and took him to jazz clubs in the city.
Calhoun’s first introduction to music came from …
Helen Diane Foster Interview, Mark Naison
Helen Diane Foster Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summarized by Alan C. Ventura
In this extensive interview, Helen Diane Foster talks about her upbringing across different areas of the Bronx, her relationship with her father, Reverend T. Wendell Foster—the first black elected official to serve the Bronx—and her time spent on the city council, in turn becoming the first black woman elected to that position within Bronx County. Listen in as she and Dr. Mark Naison relive this monumental time in Bronx history, which most notably involved Foster’s attempts to stop the seizure of Macombs Dam Park for Yankee Stadium.
Wanny Angerer Interview, Mark Naison
Wanny Angerer Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Lisa Betty, Mark Naison
INTERVIEWEE: Wanny Angerer
SUMMARY BY: Grace D’Ambrosio
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wanny Angerer is the founder of several global social movements. Her parents both came from small Garifuna communities and moved to larger cities to further their own education as well as expand the opportunities available to their children. Wanny’s family, including her grandparents, were leading members of the Garifuna cultural movement in Honduras. In her early years, Wanny and her siblings were raised to value education, spirituality, and community service. From a young age she was taking music and dance classes and would spend …
Marlene Taylor-Ponterotto Interview, Mark Naison
Marlene Taylor-Ponterotto Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summary by Eliza Anderson.
Marlene Taylor-Ponterotto is a vital member of both the Fordham and the Bronx communities who has worked diligently to promote racial justice and equity in New York City healthcare and in educational opportunities for marginalized students. Taylor graduated from Fordham College at Rose Hill in 1979 and was the only female student from her class to graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. Taylor now resides in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx and is an active member of the MOSAIC alumni association and a trailblazing advocate for her patients at Heritage Clinic in Central …
Patricia Payne Interview, Mark Naison
Patricia Payne Interview, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Disciplines
African American Studies
Abstract
Summary by Jocelyn Defex.
This interview for the Bronx African American History Project was with Patricia Payne, a professor at Monroe College. She and Dr. Mark Naison discuss her family history and experiences growing up in the Patterson houses in the South Bronx.
Payne’s family moved to the Bronx from Harlem in 1949 and settled in the Patterson houses. Payne’s parents were from South Carolina; Her father worked as a taxman and auxiliary policeman, while her mother had limited formal education and worked occasionally as a domestic helper.
Patricia's memories of the Paterson houses began …
Maribel Gonzalez Interview Part 2, Mark Naison
Maribel Gonzalez Interview Part 2, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summarized by Alan C. Ventura
Maribel Gonzalez is a small business owner in the Bronx and serves as sole operator of The South of France restaurant. As part of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project, she sits with Fordham University senior Bethany Fernandez to share her experience of running a business during the pandemic.
Gonzalez reflects on how her business has progressed along with COVID-19 protocols since her first interview in June 2020. She discusses the ongoing challenges of running a business during the pandemic, with uncertainty and financial struggles continuing to persist with the passage of time. The flow …
Maribel Gonzalez Interview Part 1, Mark Naison
Maribel Gonzalez Interview Part 1, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summarized by Alan C. Ventura
Maribel Gonzalez is a small business owner in the Bronx and serves as sole operator of The South of France restaurant. As part of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project, she sits with Fordham University senior Bethany Fernandez to share her experience of running a business during the pandemic.
Gonzalez begins by looking back at the history of the establishment, revealing the love story which gave The South of France its name and explaining the Puerto Rican-American roots of the restaurant’s cuisine. Gonzalez then shifts to reflect on the interactive pre-pandemic life in the Bronx …
Mangum, Claude, Mark Naison
Mangum, Claude, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Summary by Eliza Anderson.
Dr. Claude Mangum is an integral member of the Fordham community, arriving first as the director of the Upward Bound program in 1969 before joining the faculty of the Institute of Afro-American Studies, which would later become the Department of African and
African-American Studies. Dr. Mangum was an assistant professor, associate professor, and chair of the department before his retirement in 2011.
Dr. Mangum began his educational career as a high school teacher, attending Queen’s College before starting to teach at John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens. He completed a Masters and PHD at Columbia …
Economic Trends Which Helped Spawn 60'S Uprisings And Helped Pave The Way For Affirmative Action In Employment And Admissions, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
The following short summary of economic trends affecting the nation's Black population in the post WW 2 era are an essential backdrop to analyzing the rise of Affirmative Action in employment and education in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It will help explain why uprisings took place in so many urban black communities in the middle and late 1960's, with the largest taking place in Los Angeles, Newark and Detroit, and why a critical portion of the nation's leaders, along with a significant portion of the politically aware black population, felt that color blind civil rights law could not …
Daley, Joy Elaine, Mark Naison
Thank You Governor Abbott! Sending Nyc Busloads Of Migrants Helps Strengthen Our City's Economy, Mark Naison
Thank You Governor Abbott! Sending Nyc Busloads Of Migrants Helps Strengthen Our City's Economy, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Why Environmental Racism In The Bronx May Be A More Pressing Issue Than Gentrification, Mark Naison
Why Environmental Racism In The Bronx May Be A More Pressing Issue Than Gentrification, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
No abstract provided.
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
The Cultural Capital Bronx Residents Possess, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Marietta J. Tanner, Mark Naison
Marietta J. Tanner, Mark Naison
Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)
Interviewee: Marietta J. Tanner
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Donna Joseph, Saudah Muhammad
Date: July 2020
Summarized by Sophia Maier
Marietta J. Tanner was born in 1928 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Influenced by the activism of her father and the wartime experiences of her uncle, Marietta is a life-long political activist. Her parents explained to her from a young age their experiences in Jim Crow era Pennsylvania and by the age of six she was passing out political pamphlets and registering people to vote with the rest of her family. After attending a segregated school in her youth and a brief period …
Whiting-Hogans, Monica, Mark Naison
Whiting-Hogans, Monica, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewee: Monica Whiting Hogans
Interviewer(s): Mark Naison, Donna Joseph, April Fowler, Saudah Muhammad
Date: June 6, 2022
Summarized by Sophia Maier
Monica Whiting Hogans is from Mount Vernon, New York. Besides leaving to attend the Historically Black College/ University (HBCU) Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, she has lived there her entire life and become an important member of the community, including in the nearby Bronx. She has been connected with the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority since elementary school, as her teacher and mentor Anne Myers was a member and family friend. She joined the sorority at Morgan State, drawn …
Smith,Yvonne Marie, Mark Naison
Smith,Yvonne Marie, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Yvonne Smith, Member and Donna Joseph, President, Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated ©
Interviewers: Dr. Mark Naison Date: April 12, 2023
Summarized by Amy Rini July 15, 2023
Yvonne Marie Smith was born and spent her entire 72 years of life to date in the Bronx, and decades as a leading member of ETA Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated ©. Smith is a retired educator and impactful community leader. Her parents were both born in New York City: her father was born in Harlem and her mother in Yonkers. Her …
Avila, Jose Francisco Interview Part 2, Bronx African American History Project
Avila, Jose Francisco Interview Part 2, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Summary of José Francisco Ávila (Feb. 17th, 2022) Pt.2 Interview
Summarized by : Katherine Caperan
This is the second part of the José Francisco Ávila interview. In this one, he discusses the experiences that have shaped his efforts as a prominent Garifuna and Afro-Latino social justice activist for Garifuna communities in New York City, nationally, and internationally. As a Garifuna originally from Cristales, Honduras, Ávila notices that the Garifuna communities face the same issues in his country as in the United States. Ávila spent over thirty years researching and writing about the Garifuna Community. Collecting information from the news, television, …
Backdrop To A Musical Revolution: Urban Uprisings, Black Power And The Vietnam War Shatter The Politics Of Respectability In Popular Music, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Avila, Jose Francisco Interview Part 1, Bronx African American History Project
Avila, Jose Francisco Interview Part 1, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
Jose Francisco Avila was born in the Garifuna village of Cristalis, near the city of Trujillo in Honduras. He moved with his family as at 15 years old to the United States because his parents wanted better opportunities, specifically educational opportunities, for him and his siblings. They moved to the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, where Avila had to quickly learn English at the Boston School for Immigrants, before attending Solomon Lewenberg Junior High School and Boston English High until 1981. Living in a predominantly Black neighborhood in a city with a relatively small Garifuna community, there was constant questioning …
The Crack Epidemic And The Transformation Of Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale, Mark Naison
The Crack Epidemic And The Transformation Of Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Loving,Julia, Mark Naison
Loving,Julia, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Julia Loving, Summary of Interview with the Bronx African-American History Project
October 14th, 2020
Dr. Mark Naison and Alison Rini
Summarized by Amy Rini August, 2023
Bronx born public school librarian and high school educator Julia Loving’s parents were from Nelson County, Virginia. She has two older brothers, Jesse and Mark. Her grandparents were the only black store owners in 1920s Roseland, Virginia. In 1960, they moved up to New York City because their parents did not want their children to stay South in the height of Jim Crow. They met while going to colored schools and Baptist and Pentecostal …
No Innocence Here: How Irish, Jewish And Italian New Yorkers Benefited From Their Whiteness In Post-World War Ii Nyc, Mark Naison
No Innocence Here: How Irish, Jewish And Italian New Yorkers Benefited From Their Whiteness In Post-World War Ii Nyc, Mark Naison
Occasional Essays
No abstract provided.
Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Everette Brown, Jacqueline, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Jacqueline Everette Brown
Interviewers: Mark Naison
Date: August 2020
Summarized by Trystan Edwards
Jacqueline Everette Brown was born in the Bedstuy community of Brooklyn, New York. She fondly recollects her childhood as one of three girls in her family. Her mother and father migrated to New York from Georgia during the great migration in the late thirties. Brown and her family moved back to Georgia in the early 1950’s. It is during this time that she faced more overt racism, evidenced by her having to ride in the back of the bus. Nevertheless, Brown and her family quickly adjusted. …
Carolyn Bowman, Mark Naison
Carolyn Bowman, Mark Naison
Oral Histories
Interviewees: Carolyn Bowman
Interviewers: Mark Naison, Avery Russell, Diana Joseph, Saudah Muhammad
Date:August 2020
Transcriber: Kate Caperan
Soror Carolyn Bowman was initiated on the first line of the Eta Omega Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 1966. Bowman was born and raised in Harlem, Manhattan. After graduating from Julia Richmond High School, Bowman attended the City College of New York (CCNY) for her undergraduate years, and the Rabinowitz School of Social Work at Hunter College from which she received a Master’s Degree in 1964. She then briefly worked at the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service in Foster …