Race And Change Crossing Cultures Changing Lives Archives - Kitty Oliver Online

An Evening with Emmanuel George Filmmaker and Oral Historian

kitty — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:19:17 +0000

An Evening with Emmanuel George Filmmaker and Oral Historian. Coming out after 20 months! My first in-person sharing of new narratives of Race and Change and Hope at the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, FL. The presentation was capped by a lively, candid unscripted chat with oral historian and filmmaker Emmanuel George about the generational divides and the bridges to take us forward. It’s opening the door to the potential for more healing racial conversations like this with other Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Zers on new stages around the country.

Emmanuel George spent his childhood years in North Miami and Miami Shores. Since 2002, he’s been living in Hollywood and Dania Beach, Florida.

His calling to be a voice and advocate for the local Black community came after being taken under activist and organizer Valencia Gunder’s wing as one of her mentees. Through getting involved in community activism in Miami, he applied what he was taught in Dade and brought it to the Hollywood and Dania Beach communities.

Emmanuel’s passion has always been film and art. He wanted to blend what he loves with community development. Because of his work and dedication to Black Broward, he started the Black Broward film project and is the producer of the Sistrunk-A-Fair, which is the first Black art week in Broward County.

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Oral History Projects Dr. Kitty Oliver

kitty — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:35:12 +0000

Oral History Projects Dr. Kitty Oliver. Author, oral historian, and media producer Kitty Oliver has a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies focusing on race and ethnic communication and an MFA in Creative Writing. She pioneered The Race and Change Dialogue model for talking about differences across races, ethnicities, and generations in public forums in a non-confrontational, hopeful way.

She founded the Race and Change Oral Histories archive with125 interviews on race relations, one of the only historical archives of its kind and scope, with stories of cross-cultural narrators in the U.S. and Ghana, West Africa prior to and after passage of the Civil Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, and the Race and Change Initiative, a multimedia site with archival oral history interviews and writings, video and Web radio programs with elders and youth. Oral histories are housed in Special Collections at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL., and her work is part of the American Folklife Center Civil Rights History Project archive.

PROJECT CONSULTANT: Dr. Kitty Oliver is a Race and Change oral history consultant and member of the national Oral History Association who designs oral history programs and stages creative oral history presentations on race relations for communities in racial, ethnic, and cultural transition.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Radio Programs – Stories of Elders: Voices of Race and Change: Oral Histories and Podcast, includes cross-cultural conversations and excerpts from the Race and Change Oral Histories archive. For brief excerpts click here.

Radio Programs – Younger People Talk About Race: Voices of Race and Change: The Younger Generation, with programs produced by college students and immigrant teens across cultures sharing their personal experiences with race and ethnic issues today from such perspectives as: Black Racial Identity, Indian Women Today, A Guatemalan Experience, A Haitian Confronts Bullying, Mexican-American: Overlooked & Undervalued, Middle Eastern (“What Are You?”), Colombian “Pressure to Fit ‘The Mold’”, A Chilean on Prejudice, and White Students on Race (“Parents’ Views Differ” and “Both Sides of Class”. For additional brief excerpts click here.

Educational Activities:

Cultural Bridging Exercises – click here to download pdf of Cultural Bridging Questions

Classroom Exercises (FCAT) – click here to download pdf of Sample Teaching Activities

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Race And Change Crossing Cultures Changing Lives

kitty — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:47:50 +0000

When the 10-part documentary series “Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives” that I produced premiered in May, 2008, on Becon TV, I had modest expectations beyond summer. I was just happy to have found such a wide range of people and perspectives willing to explore the complexities of race relations in America in such a thoughtful and public way. In the end, the series lasted through the racially-historic Presidential election that November, for four years longer in periodic reruns, and it was marketed nationally as an educational resource.

Now “Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives” is back, re-airing starting Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on Becon TV (Channel 19 or Channel 63) with a repeat Wednesday at 11 p.m. Episodes will also be available for a limited time On Demand. It’s a chance to take a breath and listen for a while – for the first time, or with a new level of awareness – to some of the quieter voices of Race and Change that we don’t usually get to hear.

Dr. Kitty Oliver is a veteran journalist and academic, an author and oral historian, a media producer, and a professional singer with an MFA in Creative Writing, specializing in literary nonfiction and memoir, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies, focusing on race and ethnic communication.

A product of the civil rights era who came of age with integration in the U.S., she brings an innovative perspective to race and ethnic relations sharing research and stories across cultures in Race and Change dialogues where people can explore race in a hopeful, progressive way.

She is founder of the cross-cultural Race and Change Oral History Archive, the largest of its kind in size and scope, housed in Special Collections at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Her books and television documentaries are used widely in public schools, college classrooms, and community forums. She has also assembled an online resource of Race and Change programs for youth including an iTunes radio channelfeaturing stories of scores of native-born and immigrant college students and teens.

In 2019, she presented the first “Agents of Race and Change Award,” to encourage today’s youth who are building bridges across the racial and ethnic divide. Signup for the email list for information on how to submit a nomination.

Watch her in a brief but pivotal segment of the recent award-winning Ron Howard documentary film on the Beatles – “Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years” – where she shares personal experiences with the band and segregation in Florida. Her cross-cultural intergenerational race and ethnic relations work was also chronicled by CNN.

The Race and Change Oral Histories archive ranges from life histories of baby boomers – U.S. born and immigrants – who came of age with the Civil Rights Movement, to interviews in Ghana, West Africa. It is the only cross-cultural collection of its kind and scope in the U.S. where ordinary people reflect candidly on race relations experiences over the years and how society and they have changed.

The Race and Change Dialogue strategy is a model for talking about differences in a non-confrontational, inclusive, hopeful way, opening the door to global conversations and progress.
“Sharing the truth of our story, all that we have grown through, the progress as well as the pain, can be a healing experience – for the speaker, and the listener – and provide hope for generations to come.”

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