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Interview no. | R-0810 |
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 | 17 April 2015 |
Interviewee | George, Tacito. |
Interviewee occupation |
Engineers Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1959 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Carreño, Michelle. |
Abstract | Tacito George describes his path towards cooking and narrates how he began. Even though Tacito George did not know how to cook before moving to the United States, he had a necessity to learn due to the repetition of his menu. With the help of his mother and his sisters, Mr. George started to cook little by little and was able to improve his culinary aptitude. Mr. George grew up in the Dominican Republic with the mentality that women were the ones that did the domestic tasks while the men worked outside the house. He describes different passages of his childhood, remembering moments where the roles at home between women and men were very distinct. By moving to the United States, he underwent a transformation which he calls “process of disintoxication,” giving him a new vision of the world. In contrast to the environment where he grew up, he was able to discover the flaws regarding what he had learned with respect to the rights of men and women. In the interview, he also conveys different experiences lived in the United States that contributed to his shift in thinking. Additionally, he illustrates some typical dishes from the Dominican Republic, making a parallel between his life in the two atmospheres and concluding with the drastic changes in his diet due to his move. |
Subject Topical Other |
Culture Food Gender |
Citation | Interview with Tacito George by Michelle Carreño, 17 April 2015, R-0810, 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. | R0810_Audio |