2018/12/01 by Erica Britt · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Rhetoric and Communication Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/jola.12196
openalex publication_date 2018/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
This article explores the ways that Flint residents report on their encounters with various kinds of “outsiders” who are influenced by mass‐mediated images that position Flint and its residents in a certain way. Through the voicing of outsiders who engage in the circulation of negative discourses about Flint, residents then insert their own voices as they contest negative discourses about the city. Here, the images that they project about life in Flint provide a powerful counternarrative about what it means to have lived in the city during its deindustrializing period. This suggests that oral history interviews are an important site for the discursive production (and contestation) of individual and collective identities for Flint residents.