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References: Bring It Home

  1. OHA Statement on Ethics - Oral History Association - The professional standard for oral history in the US: informed consent, the narrator's right to decline questions and review an interview, privacy, and archiving. Read this before your capstone interview.
  2. Principles and Best Practices (revised 2018) - Oral History Association - The overview page that links the association's full guidance, including a document written for people being interviewed. Good for club officers who run Ask Your Elders nights.
  3. AFC Plans to Enhance Resources for Higher Education - Library of Congress, American Folklife Center (Folklife Today blog) - Points students and teachers to Folklife and Fieldwork, the Library of Congress's free step-by-step fieldwork guide in English and Spanish, and to other interview resources.
  4. South Asian American Digital Archive - Wikipedia - A short overview of SAADA, founded in 2008, and its First Days Project (2013), which collects immigrants' stories of their first days in the US. Use it as a starting point, then visit saada.org.
  5. About The 1947 Partition Archive - The 1947 Partition Archive - Explains how volunteer "citizen historians" recorded more than 12,000 life stories of people who lived through Partition, and how anyone can train to record one.
  6. Liberation War Museum - Mofidul Hoque, HURIGHTS OSAKA FOCUS Vol. 105 (September 2021) - A founder-trustee of Dhaka's Liberation War Museum describes its mobile museum for schools and the 60,000-plus 1971 accounts that students collected from elders.
  7. The Citizens Archive of Pakistan - Citizens Archive of Pakistan - A Karachi-based nonprofit, founded in 2007, that runs an Oral History Project and reports more than 5,000 oral histories collected. Shows how a country-wide archive works.
  8. Indians in the U.S. Fact Sheet - Pew Research Center - Population, language use and other data on Indian Americans, including the share who speak only English at home (2021-23 data). Pew has matching fact sheets for Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese Americans.
  9. Why Hyphenation of Dual Heritage Terms Has Been a Point of Contention in Newsrooms - Daily Bruin (UCLA student newspaper), April 2019 - A clear, student-written explainer on the history of the "hyphenated American" insult and the Associated Press's 2019 decision to drop the hyphen.
  10. Third culture kid - Wikipedia - Explains Ruth Useem's term, its link to her research in India, and why second-generation immigrants are usually not counted as third culture kids. Follow its footnotes to the original research.