Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Michelle Jacobs
Object Details
- Creator
- Brown, Audrey
- American University (Washington, D.C.)
- Scope and Contents
- Interviewed in Washington, D.C., attorney Michelle Jacobs (born 1954 NY) spoke about her early life, family, education, and work as a law professor as well as the individuals who most influenced her. She explained how she identifies herself. Jacobs expressed her thoughts on ethnicity and how ethnic identification affected her life; her thoughts on black community, empowerment, independence, and self-determination; and her thoughts on identifying the black community as one group or many different groups. She stated groups/affiliations she belongs to/activities she is involved in, any social activism work, and how she stays in touch with African Americans and the African American community, including publications, websites, other communication/media, conferences, and celebrations/events. She explained how emphasizing African descent in one's appearance relate to social change in America. Jacobs talked about the accuracy of African American history and how African American people, particularly African American women, are portrayed. She explained how knowing history influences what is happening now and in the future; where women fit in in terms of passing on history; and what African American women can accomplish personally in their everyday lives to affect change. Jacobs described what she would change, what she would build, and what she would eliminate with unlimited power and/or resources.
- Interview. Part of Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews 1997-1998. Dated 19980904. Second date notation on asset: Dec. 1998.
- Date
- 1998
- Extent
- 2 Sound recordings (audio cassette)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- Women
- Ethnicity
- Communities
- Social action
- Social change
- Political science
- African American political activists
- Activists
- African American history
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Michelle Jacobs, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-016, Item ACMA AV000162_A
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV000162_B ACMA AV000163
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- Date
- 1997-1998
- bulk 1998-1998