Object Details
Names
Newell, Angela
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Citation
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
Contents of this audio recording is more of a discussion, rather than an interview, involving at least 3 people. According to transcription from physical asset, one of the people is Angela Newell. Discussion topics included extended family, including where they were born; where lived in Panama and neighbors; Creole language; education and teachers in Panama; leaving Panama; being in armed services, stationed in Korea; Panamanian community in Washington, DC; tension between "Spanish speaking Latinos" and Black Panamanians; relations between white Latinos and Black Latinos, and within the Black community; identifying self and how others identify others; Black people, citizenship, and land ownership; why Black people were pushed out of Panama; Black Panamanians and language; and the Panama Canal Zone.
Interview / discussion is in English and minimal Spanish. Digital audio files include very loud white noise and static; multiple and overlapping voices; and lots of background noise, sound interference, and/or sound distortions. Voices are difficult to hear and often unintelligible. Overall, very poor audio quality.
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General
Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Place
Canal Zone
Panama
West Indies
Latin America
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Topic
Afro-Panamanians
Latin Americans
Caribbeans
African Americans
Women
Identity
Citizenship
Language and languages
Emigration and immigration
Race
Interviews
Culture
Panamanians
West Indians
See more items in
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
Sponsor
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF). A number of oral history interviews in this collection were digitized and catalogued in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Extent
2 Digital files
1 Sound cassette
Date
1993 May 26
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Type
Archival materials
Digital files
Sound cassettes
Collection Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Note
The total playing time of conversation recording is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.03-027_ref1875
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ACMA
Record ID
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