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Title: stockton immigrant women
Dates: 1980-1986
Collection number: MSS 239
Collector:
Miller, Sally
Collection Size: 2 linear feet
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
Abstract: This collection contains audio interviews,
transcriptions, and related newspaper clippings of immigrant women in
Stockton.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Stockton Immigrant Women. MSS 239. Holt-Atherton Department of Special
Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
Sally Miller was a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific
in Stockton, California. She organized a conference and three seminars
concerning Stockton immigrant women in 1980-81. Miller had her students
interview sixty-five women of twenty-seven nationalities ranging in age from
twenty to ninety years old. Additional group interviews were conducted at the
conference in May 1981. Most of the women interviewed had come to the United
States between 1920 and 1950. They worked on farms, in canneries, as
dressmakers, as restaurant workers and as teachers. A summary of the Stockton
Immigrant Women project was published in
The
Californians
in 1986.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains audio interviews, transcriptions, and related
newspaper clippings of immigrant women in Stockton. In addition to discussing
family life, parenting in a new culture, and work, the interviewees revealed
their own experiences and struggles of when they immigrated to America and
tried to establish themselves. Not only did they discuss their country of
origin, traditions, and family life, but many interviewees were asked questions
about the women’s liberation movement and changing gender roles and
expectations. The collection contains tapes of the proceedings of the Stockton
Immigrant Women Conference and Seminars together with miscellaneous papers
pertaining to the interview process.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Women immigrants - California - Stockton -
Interviews
Stockton (Calif.) - History - Sources
Stockton (Calif.) - Social life and
customs