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Interview no. | R-0814 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.34. Special Research Projects: New Roots |
Project description | Interviews, 2007-ongoing, focus on issues related to Latin American immigration to North Carolina and the formation of Latino communities. Interviewers are conducted by undergraduate students in courses taught by Hannah Gill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interviewees include immigrants, United States-born second generations, professionals who work with immigrants, policy-makers, religious leaders, educators, students, and local business owners. |
Date | 23 February 2016 |
Interviewee | Brown, Terrell. |
Interviewee occupation | Students |
Interviewee DOB | 1995 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dougherty, Ana. |
Abstract | Terrell Brown is a junior undergraduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, but moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina at the age of two, and has lived there ever since. Brown discusses what makes Hendersonville home for him, describing his family, friends, faith, and community. He tells the story of exploring his faith through the Catholic Church with Mexican friends from his community; he took communion and confirmation classes that were given entirely in Spanish. He describes his baptism as his first “big faith encounter,” saying that the second one was when he met his father for the first time, and they attended a church service together. He tells the story of how he came to feel at home in the Mexican community in Hendersonville, describing his friends and explaining that he was a chambelán at several quinceañeras. Brown explains that he was motivated to perfect his Spanish through his work at the Boys and Girls Club, where he noticed that many of the children struggled to connect with the staff because they did not speak English. He then discusses how race has become important to him, especially in college, as a biracial man. Finally, Brown discusses his family and its importance to him. |
Subject Topical Other |
Identity Family Religion |
Citation | Interview with Terrell Brown by Ana Dougherty, 23 February 2016, R-0814, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | R0814_Audio |