Object Details
Interviewer
Santos, Dario
Names
Phillips, George Wendell
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
George Phillips, the Executive Director of the D.C. Partners of Brasilia, spoke about his long history of working with people from Latin America, particularly Brazil. He explained D.C. Partners of Brasilia works with people from all over Brazil, but particularly with those from Brasilia, and works to encourage Brazilian-U.S. relations by actively promoting social exchange between Washington, DC and its sister city Brasilia. Note, Phillips is not Brazilian.
Phillips spoke about D.C. Partners of Brasilia's projects and partnerships in Brazil and Washington, DC area, the carnival sponsored by D.C. Partners of Brasilia, his perception and understanding of Brazilians, and his trips to Brazil.
George Phillips was interviewed by Dario J. Santos at the House of Brazil Club. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static. Interviewee's voice can be heard clearly for the most part.
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General
Associated documentation, including partial transcripts, for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives. The textual transcripts are not verbatim of the audio recordings.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Place
BrasÃlia (Distrito Federal, Brazil)
Brazil
Washington (D.C.)
Topic
Associations, institutions, etc.
Exchange of persons programs
Interviews
Interviewer
Santos, Dario
Culture
Brazilians
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 February 15
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 interview recording is approximately 50 minutes.
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
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Record ID
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