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Guide to New Neighbors: Sunset Park's Chinese Community oral histories 1994.007
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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Chinatown History Museum |
| Creator:
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Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) |
| Creator:
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Ruf, Gregory |
| Creator:
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Lui, Mary |
| Creator:
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Chui, Ka-Kam |
| Creator:
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Museum of Chinese in the Americas |
| Title: |
New Neighbors: Sunset Park's Chinese Community records |
| Dates [inclusive]: |
1992-1996 |
| Dates [bulk]: |
1993-1994 |
| Abstract: |
Brooklyn Historical Society collaborated with the Chinatown History Museum (now the
Museum of Chinese in America) in order to conduct a series of oral histories with residents of the Sunset Park
neighborhood of Brooklyn. The Cantonese, Mandarin, and English language interviews
focused on what was then a new presence of Chinese and Asian immigrants concentrated
along Eighth Avenue. Among the topics that are explored in the interviews are tensions
between different groups of Chinese immigrants, crime and safety in the neighborhood,
Sunset Park's relationship to Manhattan's Chinatown, and how long-term residents of
Sunset Park had adjusted to the area's "newcomers."
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| Quantity: |
6.42 Gigabytes in 210 files, total running time: 43 hours, 7 minutes, 27 seconds (series 1); in three
record boxes
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| Language: |
Materials in Cantonese, English and Mandarin. |
| Call Phrase: |
1994.007 |
| Sponsor: |
This collection was processed and described as part of the project, 'Voices of Generations:
Investigating Brooklyn's Cultural Identity,' funded by the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC) and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
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