SIS Oral History Project

What is SIS?

Spelman's Independent Scholars (SIS) Program is a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary and intergenerational learning experience open to students across all majors. In SIS, we enhance our critical writing and critical thinking skills. In weekly seminars we share our research, sharpen our skills and grow in knowledge about oral history. In addition to learning sessions with the SIS faculty mentor, we are privileged to lectures by guest scholars including a gerontologist, two oral historians, a museum curator, an archivist and a physician-researcher in traditional knowledge. The first semester in SIS focuses on research and interviewing. The second semester focuses on transcribing and editing.

The concept paper included in our SIS Research Notebook gives a rationale for the learning experience:

Throughout our history in this nation -- indeed before we were brought to these shores -- older women in our families and in our communities are griots and sages, seers and prophets whom we are taught to honor and revere. Their stories teach us about values and beliefs that shaped their reality and, in immeasurable ways, impact our own. For reason, then, we see their memories, anchored deep in the soil of wisdom, as cherished treasure. It is this truth, as old as time itself, that undergirds the SIS Oral History Project.
As explained by Danielle Phillips, Spelman Independent Scholar

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More information is available about SIS Oral History Project at http://www.spelman.edu/sisoralhistory/

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[aBETTERme1231]

Part 2 of my comments.... If the mother was black and father was white then the child was consider a malato which in today's term we would called this biracial ( still not accepted as white but good enough to work)!  Some parts of this law is still in affect , so therefore according to this law Barack is consider black! Barack's mother didn't raise him as biracial, she raised him until her death according to how the world will view him and according to a black/ white society and its laws!

[aBETTERme1231]

The deliberate ignorance displayed on here is aloof! It's sad! Working as a government employee I get to view and read history that never reaches the public in raw form, without being manipulated or watered down in the media as smoke screen propaganda! With that stated, it is stated in our laws that if a person had a black father and white mother the child is to consider Black ( African American or in their terms a Negro). If the mother was black and father was white then the child was conside

[OBAMAisHalfCaste]

@90ras maby so but the fact that these idiot sick people live off him being the first black president is beyond words. obama is half-caste not black and he will never be black because he has 50% of european blood running in him. so their is no difference in calling obama white as in calling him black. but to be fully accurate they should just say mixed-race biracial or half-caste. in africa obama and every other half-caste person is considerd as white by the vast black native african population.

[90rashad]

@OBAMAisHalfCaste you are right, but he's a terrible president and I shouldn't have voted for him.

[Andy1972206]

Ann Nixon Cooper

January 9, 1902 - December 21, 2009

Rest In Peace

[ptonio3000]

Very nice segment! Spelman and the city of Atlanta is rich in history that has yet to be exposed to much of this country.