Oral History Remix
The YPA collection holds almost 2,000 oral history interviews, oral history remixes, and pocket films exploring how American cultural values, norms, and beliefs. shape notions of difference.
YPA participants learn to conduct oral histories through engaged interviewing and focused listening practices that treat storytelling as a political and ethical act. The work asks participants to listen beneath what is said—to the patterns, silences, and contradictions—in order to surface how gender and masculinity, race and social class, religion, sexuality, and (dis)ability are lived and understood in everyday life. From there, participants create carefully composed audioethnographies (audio essays) that render the social, political, and economic pressures people and their closest communities are navigating.
“The process of producing audioethnographies disrupts notions of difference by giving producers, narrators, and listeners a shared practice of listening across difference. The result is not agreement or comfort, but a deeper orientation toward understanding—one rooted in attention, accountability, and the willingness to be changed by what is heard.”
Sample Oral History Remixes
