THE VOCES CIUDADANAS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT/ SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN
The Voces Ciudadanas Oral History Project seeks to unearth the voices and memories of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park residents who have been involved in creating community spaces for the benefit of all. It seeks to foster community learning from past strategies, methods, and motivations to inform future imaginaries and concrete possibilities leading to the creation of new community spaces as a way to address structural inequalities.
The Voces Ciudadanas Oral History Project brings together the diverse immigrant communities that have fought to create community spaces, either tangible or intangible, for the benefit of all in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. The narrators of this oral history project include residents and community leaders involved in past and current local initiatives, campaigns, and coalitions, including Make Space for Schools, Defensores, El Grito de Sunset Park, and the Coalition for Community Space.
This collective oral history project was conceived as an organizing tool to learn about past community organizing endeavors in the face of the demolition and new construction of the Sunset Park Public Library. Under the leadership of the community-based organization Voces Ciudadanas, local residents, civic groups, and community organizations got together and started organizing to preserve the temporal space the public library used while the new construction took place.
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Listen to the oral history interviews here: Housing Justice Oral History Project
LEADER
Gabriela Rendón
RESERACH ASSISTANT
Xavier Moysén Alvarez (P.h.D Sociology)
ADVISORY BOARD
Javier Salamanca, Victoria Quiroz-Becerra, and Antelma Valdez.
STUDENT TEAM /MS DESIGN AND URBAN ECOLOGIES CLASS 2024
Melissa Bosley
Beka Fadila
Daniela Fernandez López
Mae Francke Rojo
Gracia Goh
Sofia Kavlin
Lukas Kernke
Alex Purcelli
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