NEH supports New Roots at ISA for an oral history project focused on Latino Community Health Workers in North Carolina
The Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Oral Histories. The funding will support the New Roots initiative “Stories of Resilience: Latino Community Health Workers and COVID Response in North Carolina.” The project is funded, in part, by the special NEH initiative, American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future, which emphasizes the role of the humanities in tackling contemporary social challenges: strengthening our democracy, advancing equity for all, and addressing our changing climate. New Roots is a bilingual research and public history initiative that documents North Carolina’s Latin American and Caribbean history. The initiative trains UNC students in research methods as part of the Curriculum in Latin American Studies and archives materials with the Southern Oral History Program and the University Libraries. Since its inception in 2006, New Roots has worked with more than 200 narrators from 16 countries to produce 150+ hours of audio-recorded and transcribed interviews publicly available for community activities, research and teaching.
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