8/12/2023 0 Comments Mitsuye endo with sisters![]() ![]() ![]() Less Mitson's teacher than her student, as she instructed me both in the art of oral history interviewing and transcript editing. One immediate result of this arrangement was that, in reviewing Mitson's processing work, I was drawn-or rather, I was plunged-intoĮvery facet of the oral history process via the topic of the Japanese American Evacuation. To the Evacuation tapes and by collecting and collating research materials for exploitation by her classmates. In another of her classes, she could spend her time for my class more profitably by doubling her processing efforts relative Student, soon convinced me that, because only the previous semester she had completed a research paper centered upon the Evacuation Perspective to the contemporary concern with civil liberties, human rights, and ethnic consciousness. West Coast Japanese Americans was that the thirty-year anniversary of this event afforded a convenient way of imparting historical My motivationįor assigning each student in my class to write a research paper on some aspect of the wartime removal and incarceration of To the World War II Japanese American Evacuation, the very topic I had selected for investigation by the students in my HistoricalĪt this point, I knew virtually nothing about either the method of oral history or the subject of the Evacuation. Skills in oral history by transcribing, editing, and indexing a series of tape-recorded interviews in the OHP collection pertinent Coincidentally, she had chosen, with Shumway's guidance, to sharpen her technical processing Shumway, the founding director of the CSUF program and a pioneer in the national oral history movement, and in a historical Mitson was enrolled concurrently in an introductory oral history class taught by Professor Consistent with the student-based philosophy and practice of the Oral History Program (OHP) at California State University,įullerton (CSUF), its extensive Japanese American Project was launched in 1972 at the urging of a then CSUF undergraduate ![]()
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