Jayleen Solorzano Oral History
In this oral history, Jayleen Solorzano, a first generation college student from Watsonville, California shares her experience at UCSD. Jayleen,…
In this oral history, Jayleen Solorzano, a first generation college student from Watsonville, California shares her experience at UCSD. Jayleen,…
In spite of the remote learning conditions brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, my time volunteering with Chula Vista College…
San Ysidro High School is a high school located in San Ysidro, a region in South San Diego. It is…
Working with We All We Got (WAWG) this quarter has been a singularly unique experience for a few reasons. First, and…
Ami Admire, the director of Rincon Youth Storytellers, explained to us how there are still many missing artifacts and pieces…
For this Oral History Interview, I talked with Jennifer Gonzalez, one of the lead organizers for Detainee Allies. Jennifer has…
Over the past quarter, our group has had the opportunity to spend Monday evenings with the Girl Scouts troop at…
For the UWEAST Girl Scout troop, their time is truly enriched by the programming that the staff offers them. The…
This project was conducted for the Race and Oral History Course at UCSD in the Spring of 2019. This post is a reflection on the limits of oral history and ways to overcome them through an engagement with the letter. The letter I chose was written by a Mexican mother to Detainee Allies.. She is 37 years and had been living in San Diego for 19 years before being detained. In this post, you will find a reflection on how to rethink oral history thanks to an artifact. I will provide a personal analysis of the letter, highlighting sections that articulate the following themes: endless violence, militarized border, family, vulnerability and confinement. The goal of this project is to amplify the voice of one detainee confined at Otay Mesa Detention Center. Closed from the outside world and deprived of face-to-face interactions, detainees have resorted to letter writing to speak out and to convey their humanity. Reading their letters creates a form of encounter that approximates an oral history interview.
This past Monday was my last day at BLCI and it was a bittersweet moment. For this last workshop the…