Sara Sinclair
Autor von How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America (Voice of Witness)
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Sara Sinclair is an oral historian, writer, and educator of Cree-Ojibwe and settler descent.
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How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America (Voice of Witness) (2020) — Herausgeber — 73 Exemplare
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- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Athabaska University (BA)
Columbia University (MA) - Kurzbiographie
- Sara Sinclair is an oral historian of Cree-Ojibwa, German-Jewish and British descent. Sara teaches in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University. She is Project Director of the Aryeh Neier Oral History Project at Columbia Center for Oral History Research [CCOHR]. Sara is currently co-editing two anthologies of Indigenous letters, for Penguin/Random House Canada. She is the editor of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America (2020, Voice of Witness/Haymarket Books). She has contributed to CCOHR’s Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Obama Presidency Oral History, and Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project. With Peter Bearman and Mary Marshall Clark, Sinclair edited Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, published by Columbia University Press in spring 2019. Prior to attending Columbia University's Oral History Masters or Arts, Sara lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she conducted an oral history project for the International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Africa. Sara’s current and previous clients include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the City of New York, New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
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How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North… von Sara Sinclair
Collection of interviews of contemporary indians in North America, their struggles, victories, and their contributions to the indian movement toward greater freedom, healing and autonomy. They retell experiencing in boarding schools, housing insecurities, reconnecting with their past, key influencers in their lives, and ways they have found to learn about their culture.
½this is a nice compilation of essays that give a pretty wide range of indigenous experiences in canada and the northern usa. too much of the north american experience usually focuses on the use, so this was a nice change to mostly be about canadian native populations.
as usual, a few essays and experiences/statistics really stood out above the rest for me.
jasilyn charger's essay on standing rock and that long protest was excellent. also impactful for me was her relating the story of how when standing rock organizers reached out to the kxl pipeline protestors, and only her group of teenagers showed up to help, and then they organized the teens for standing rock.
"According to a National Institute of Justice Research Report from 2016, 56.1 percent of Native American women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime and 14.4 percent have experienced it in the last year. Of these women, 96 percent experienced sexual violence by a perpetrator of another race or ethnicity." this is an absolutely staggering statistic and quite the opposite of most of the sexual violence experienced by others. to me, it shows how vulnerable native women and girls are, and how non-native men are threats to them. if this was the statistic for murder, it would be a genocide. for sexual violence it should be called something equally noticeable and profound.
"Indigenous people are more often criminalized and imprisoned for acts that are linked to poverty, lack of educational and employment opportunities, lifestyles of substance use, mental health concerns and histories of sexual abuse, violence and trauma - in other words, colonialism."… (mehr)
as usual, a few essays and experiences/statistics really stood out above the rest for me.
jasilyn charger's essay on standing rock and that long protest was excellent. also impactful for me was her relating the story of how when standing rock organizers reached out to the kxl pipeline protestors, and only her group of teenagers showed up to help, and then they organized the teens for standing rock.
"According to a National Institute of Justice Research Report from 2016, 56.1 percent of Native American women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime and 14.4 percent have experienced it in the last year. Of these women, 96 percent experienced sexual violence by a perpetrator of another race or ethnicity." this is an absolutely staggering statistic and quite the opposite of most of the sexual violence experienced by others. to me, it shows how vulnerable native women and girls are, and how non-native men are threats to them. if this was the statistic for murder, it would be a genocide. for sexual violence it should be called something equally noticeable and profound.
"Indigenous people are more often criminalized and imprisoned for acts that are linked to poverty, lack of educational and employment opportunities, lifestyles of substance use, mental health concerns and histories of sexual abuse, violence and trauma - in other words, colonialism."… (mehr)
I should start by saying I love the work of Robert Rauschenberg. I remember learning about his assemblages in an art history class in college and have enjoyed his pieces every since. That being said, I had never learned anything in depth about him as an artist, much less a person. This book definitely changed that. It is a very well-written, interesting exploration of not only a particular artist from a historical standpoint, but also from a personal standpoint. This is one of the strong suits or oral histories, in my opinion. They can provide rich detail and real context to the general outline of a person's life. It almost felt like I knew Rauschenberg as an acquaintance by the end of the book, and I felt that I grasped something more about his art from that. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the time period, the creative process, and especially someone interested in the man behind the goats and torn bedsheets. Remarkable.… (mehr)
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