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Collection Overview
| Size | About 560 items (0.5 linear feet) |
| Abstract | Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) conducts Into the Fields, a ten-week summer internship program for university students in North and South Carolina and from farmworking families nationwide. As part of this internship, student interns receive training in folklife fieldwork and complete a documentary oral history project. The documentary fieldwork focuses on farmworkers and their families in North and South Carolina, primarily, though not exclusively, migrant Latino workers, many illegal immigrants to the United States. The folklife documented includes foodways, traditional dance, art, music, and oral literature, religious beliefs and practices, life stories and experiences, labor camp life, and involvement in the labor movement. The collection includes fieldwork documentation, audio tapes, slides, videos, papers analyzing the material collected, and, from 1999-2001, printed publications with articles and photographs highlighting material from projects. The interviews and transcripts are largely in Spanish, with some translation. Fieldwork documentation and analysis includes the fieldworkers' impressions and reactions and are mostly in English. The published material from 2000 and 2001 includes side-by-side text in English and Spanish. |
| Creator | Student Action with Farmworkers (Organization : U.S.). |
| Language | English. |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Historical Information
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1992 whose mission is "to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change." As one means of accomplishing this mission, SAF sponsors Into the Fields, a ten-week summer internship program for university students in North and South Carolina and from farmworking families nationwide. Between one-third and one-half of the interns are from farmworking families. All interns have at least a working knowledge of Spanish and many are bilingual. Students work full-time in migrant health centers, legal services, migrant education programs, policy agencies, and community and labor organizing groups in North and South Carolina. As a means of reflecting upon their summer's experience, interns complete a documentary project, collecting oral histories and documenting folklife, art, music, and celebrations. These documentary projects include taped interviews, slides, and video recordings as well as field notes, transcripts, and final papers. From 1999-2001, a selection of the resulting analytical papers was published in an annual publication. Most of the interviews were conducted in Spanish, and much of the documentation and some of the papers are in Spanish.
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Scope and Content
The Student Action with Farmworkers collection includes fieldwork documentation, audio tapes, slides, videos, papers analyzing the material collected, and printed publications with articles and photographs highlighting material generated by Into the Fields internship program projects, 1999-2002. New projects may be added in the future.
The documentary fieldwork focuses on farmworkers and their families in North Carolina and South Carolina. These farmworkers are primarily, though not exclusively, migrant Latino workers, many illegal immigrants to the United States. The folklife documented includes foodways, traditional dance, art, music, religious beliefs and practices, poetry, storytelling, life stories and experiences, labor camp life, and involvement in the labor movement. The interviews and transcripts are largely in Spanish, with some translation. Fieldwork documentation and analysis includes the fieldworkers' impressions and reactions and are mostly in English. The published material from 2000 and 2001 has side-by-side text in English and Spanish.
It appears that some of the projects either have tapes missing or that the interviews were unrecorded. The projects differ in the amount and variety of documentation associated with them.
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Series 1. Documentation and Slides, 1999-2002.
Arrangement: by year.
Material on the background of the Student Action with Farmworkers Into the Fields summer internship program and documentary project, the 1999-2002 student projects, published materials, and slides. The student projects are organized by project, as received. They are arranged alphabetically by the title of the project. If the subject is unclear from the title, a brief description follows in parentheses. In the case of untitled projects a few descriptive words follow "Untitled." Slides, from all projects that included them in their documentation are filed together, as received, in one folder per year.
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Subseries 1.1. 1999.
Topics of fieldwork projects for 1999 include labor camp life, storytelling, wedding traditions, Mexican holidays and festivals, oral histories, the labor movement, pinatas, Quincenera celebrations, ranchera and romantica songs, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and foodways. One of the publications in folder 16 includes all of the final papers, many of which are in Spanish, and a selection of photographs. Slides in folder 17 correspond to projects in folders 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and also include slides for which there is no corresponding fieldwork documentation or folder.
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Subseries 1.2. 2000.
Topics of fieldwork projects for 2000 include folk art, folk dance, folk music, folk literature, baptism and three-year-old presentation, foodways, children's folklore, and religious beliefs. The publications in folder 31 include side-by-side bilingual, edited reports from both 1999 and 2000 fieldwork projects. The slides in folder 32 correspond to projects in folders 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and also include slides for which there is no corresponding fieldwork documentation or folder.
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Subseries 1.3. 2001.
Topics of fieldwork projects for 2001 include traditional butchering, Quinceanera celebrations, folk art, folk music, foodways, religion, children's folklore, oral history, baptism and three-year-old presentation, folk dance, and folk literature. The publication in folder 46 includes side-by-side bilingual, polished and edited reports on a selection of fieldwork projects. The slides in folder 47 correspond to projects in folders 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45 and also include slides for which there is no corresponding fieldwork documentation or folder.
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Subseries 1.4. 2002.
The thirteen documentary projects from the 2002 Into the Fields internships cover topics of folk dance, the traditional herbal teas of a curandera, folk art, woodworking, foodways, advocacy work, celebrations, religion, and folk music. In addition to the projects documenting the lives of migrant farmworkers, one of the 2002 projects features an interview with one of the interns, Maribel Salgado, a participant in Mexican folk dance traditions. All of the projects, except for "Por Ser Mojado" have slides associated with them, which are filed together in one folder. However, only a sampling of the slides taken appear to be included in the collection. A number of the projects appear to have tapes missing. Tape logs are included with the written documents if there is no accompanying audio recording. No publication was apparently made for the 2002 projects.
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Series 2. Sound Recordings, 1999-2002.
Taped interviews with migrant farmworkers, conducted almost exclusively in Spanish. Tape logs or transcripts are associated with many of these recordings, some of which are written completely or partially in English.
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Series 3. Video Recordings, 2001.
Video tapes of migrant farmworkers' folklife customs and rituals.
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Items Separated
Items separated include audio tapes (FS-6089 - FS-6112, FS-6529 - FS-6538) and video tapes (VT-20317/1-3).
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