Asian Americans in Western Mass. Oral History Collection
| Asian Americans in Western Mass. Oral History Collection | |
|---|---|
| Held by | Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries |
| Scope | Asian American life stories recorded in western Massachusetts |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Migration & Diaspora; History & Remembrance; Community & Civic Life |
The Asian Americans in Western Mass. Oral History Collection holds student-recorded interviews with Asian American residents of western Massachusetts, including Cambodian narrators, and is held in Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. (Digital Commonwealth record for Roeun Chea)
Overview
Published item records show interviews recorded by teams of students with a single narrator, catalogued with the collection name and the holding department. One indexed interview is with Roeun Chea, a teacher in Springfield who was born in Cambodia and survived a Khmer Rouge camp and a refugee camp before resettling in western Massachusetts. (Digital Commonwealth record for Roeun Chea)
Material coverage
Interviews are catalogued as film or video with a stated duration and language; the Roeun Chea interview runs 33 minutes and 33 seconds in English and was recorded in December 2018. Collection-level counts and a date range are not published in the records consulted. (Digital Commonwealth record for Roeun Chea)
Catalogue and access
Items carry identifiers in the form murg025_h5_4_f2018-i003 and are viewable through the university's Credo repository at https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg025_h5_4_f2018-i003. The record states that requests to publish, redistribute or replicate the material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives at the UMass Amherst Libraries. (Digital Commonwealth record for Roeun Chea) (Credo record for the Roeun Chea interview)
Selected recordings
Entries in this index for recordings held in the collection. KhmerConnection indexes this material and does not hold or provide access to the recordings.