Teresa Villamarin oral history interview, 2002 September 20

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Teresa Villamarin discusses immigrating from Bogota, Colombia as a teenager with her family to New York City for better opportunities, and her eventual journey to Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses the conservative culture of her native Colombia and its rigid gender roles, and compares it with the feminist and counterculture ideas that she encountered in New York City in 1969. She recounts getting married then moving to Hickory, North Carolina for her husband's job and experiencing the very different, slower paced culture there. Other topics include working with the poor, her support of Latinos and Latinas becoming more politically active, and her graduate education at Appalachian State. Toward the end of the interview, photographs by Latinx artists are discussed as part of the Levine Museum project.

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Title: Teresa Villamarin oral history interview, 2002 September 20
Interviewee: Villamarin, Teresa I. (Teresa Isabel)
Interviewer: Desmarais, Melinda H.
Place of Publication: Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher: J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Date of Interview: 2002-09-20
Physical Description: 1 audio file (1:08:06) : digital, MP3
Object Type: sound recording-nonmusical
Genre: spoken word
Language: eng
Interviewee Biography: Teresa Villamarin was interviewed in her office at Catholic Social Services in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was educated at Hunter College and Appalachian State University and was employed with Catholic Social Services.
Abstract: Teresa Villamarin discusses immigrating from Bogota, Colombia as a teenager with her family to New York City for better opportunities, and her eventual journey to Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses the conservative culture of her native Colombia and its rigid gender roles, and compares it with the feminist and counterculture ideas that she encountered in New York City in 1969. She recounts getting married then moving to Hickory, North Carolina for her husband's job and experiencing the very different, slower paced culture there. Other topics include working with the poor, her support of Latinos and Latinas becoming more politically active, and her graduate education at Appalachian State. Toward the end of the interview, photographs by Latinx artists are discussed as part of the Levine Museum project.
Digital Object Notes: MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on minidisc and reformatted using a Digidesign 003 rack.
Interviewee Occupations: Social workers
Subjects--Names: Villamarin, Teresa I. (Teresa Isabel)
Subjects--Topics: Latin Americans
Hispanic Americans
Emigration and immigration
Feminism
Sexism
Latin Americans--Social conditions
Poor
Poverty
Voluntarism
Immigrants--Political activity
Subjects--Geographic: Colombia--Bogotá
New York (State)--New York
North Carolina--Hickory
North Carolina--Charlotte
Subjects--Genre: Interviews
Oral histories
Coverage--Dates: 1960-2010
Digital Collection Title: Levine Museum of the New South
Digital Collection Series Title: Latinos in Charlotte
Rights: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Internet Media Type: audio/mpeg
Identifier: MU-VI0165
Handle URL: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:7725

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