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Stacey Zembrzycki - According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community - 9780774826952 - V9780774826952
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According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community

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Description for According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community Hardback. This book employs new and critical approaches to oral history to write an insightful and deeply personal history of Sudbury's Ukrainian community between 1901 and 1939. Series: Shared: Oral and Public History Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: GPS; HBTD; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba’s stories about Sudbury’s small but polarized Ukrainian community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression.

According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a fledgling historian’s desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents’ generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother laid the groundwork for this insightful and personal social history of Sudbury’s Ukrainian community. The interviews also brought to light the ... Read more

By disclosing the hard work that goes into making communities partners in research, Zembrzycki offers a new paradigm for writing oral history and for studying the politics of memory.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Series
Shared: Oral and Public History Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774826952
SKU
V9780774826952
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Stacey Zembrzycki
Stacey Zembrzycki is an oral and public historian of immigrant, ethnic, and refugee experiences. She is the co-editor of Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (2013).

Reviews for According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community
Community studies inform us about social organization and general conditions, and this study does indeed show us how the community as a whole functioned. But Zembrzycki brilliantly organizes her book so that oral histories show us individual lives: the women who refused to talk about domestic violence but could not leave out all signs of it; women who gleaned a ... Read more

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