Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Jennifer Champagne
Object Details
- Creator
- Brown, Audrey
- American University (Washington, D.C.)
- Scope and Contents
- Interviewed in Washington, D.C., Jennifer Champagne (born 1973 MA) spoke about her early life, family, and education as well as the individuals who most influenced her. She talked about her Haitian heritage, and her experience as a tutor and teacher. Champagne explained how she identifies herself. She 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. Champagne 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. Champagne described what she would change, what she would build, and what she would eliminate with unlimited power and/or resources.
- Interview. AV000166 and AV000171: same content. Part of Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews 1997-1998. Dated 19980409.
- 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
- Culture
- African American
- Citation
- Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Jennifer Champagne, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-016, Item ACMA AV000166_A
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV000166_B ACMA AV000171_A ACMA AV000171_B