Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Donna Mungen
Object Details
- Creator
- Brown, Audrey
- American University (Washington, D.C.)
- Scope and Contents
- Interviewed in her home in Altadena, CA, writer Donna Mungen (born 1948 DC) spoke about her early life, family, and education as well as the individuals who most influenced her. She talked about her work in the field of journalism as well as working and teaching in the penal system. Mungen explained how she identifies herself. Mungen 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. Mungen 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. Mungen 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 19980425.
- Date
- 1998
- Extent
- 1 sound recording (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 Donna Mungen, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-016, Item ACMA AV000154_A
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV000154_B
- General
- Title created by ACM staff based on project name and interviewee's name transcribed from physical asset.