Project Tag: Autoethnography

Rosemarie Freeney Harding

Photo from The Veterans of Hope Project African American, Autoethnography, Spirituality, Activism Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1931-2004) Rosemarie Freeney Harding offers a detailed autoethnographic memoir of African American women’s beliefs and traditions during the Great Migration from Georgia to Chicago and about her spiritual journey as she engaged study through interfaith traditions. As a Mennonite, she …

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Mary Elizabeth (Bessie) Jones

BESSIE JONES, A GOSPEL SINGER, LIVES ON ST. SIMON’S ISLAND, photograph by Paul Conklin in Brunswick (Ga.), May 1973. National Archives at College Park Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), Record group: Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 – 2006, Agency-Assigned Identifier: 076/03/004503, via Wikimedia Commons African …

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Will West Long (Willí Westì)

Photo c. 1925 from The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Native American (Eastern Band Cherokee), Autoethnography, Folklore, Crafts Will West Long (Willí Westì) (1870-1947) Will West Long, recognized as a master mask carver, collaborated with multiple anthropologists over a span of 60 years to document the music, dance, drama, folklore, and medicinal/spiritual traditions of the …

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Yan Phou Lee

British Library digitised image from page 303 of “New York’s Chinatown. An historical presentation of its people and places … Fully illustrated from life” Beck, Louis J., 1898, Bohemia Publishing. British Library shelfmark: Digital Store 10413.d.17 Chinese American, Autoethnography Yan Phou Lee (1861-ca. 1938) Yan Phou Lee was a writer and editor who wrote the …

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Maxidiwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman)

Photo published in “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden” by Maxi’diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) (ca.1839-1932) of the Hidatsa Indian Tribe; edited by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Ph.D (1868-1930). Originally published as “Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation,” Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota (Studies in the Social Sciences, #9), 1917. https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/buffalo/garden/front-page.jpg Native American (Hidatsa), Autoethnography Maxidiwiac (Buffalo …

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Frederick Douglass

Photo ca. 1879. National Archives, Frank W. Legg Photographic Collection of Portraits of Nineteenth-Century Notables, 1862–1884. NAID: 558770, War and Conflict Number 113. African American, Autoethnography Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Enslaved from birth, Frederick Douglass, neé Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was born in Talbot County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818 to an enslaved …

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