Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Howard University
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Lynch, Cedric
- Marley, Bob
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Jamaica
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Jamaican Americans
- Caribbeans
- Caribbean Americans
- Teachers
- Manners and customs
- Food
- Reggae music
- Dancehall (Music)
- Rastafari movement
- Public schools
- Education
- Students
- Discipline of children
- Emigration and immigration
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Self-employed
- Businesspeople
- Gangs
- Identity
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Interviews
- Culture
- Jamaicans
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 3 Digital files
- 2 Sound cassettes
- Date
- 1993 April 10
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Cedric Lynch, an assistant principal at a public school, spoke about his parents, who were farmers and self-employed, and his siblings; his mother and Jamaican mothers as the disciplinarians in the family; the importance of religion to his family; Bob Marley, the evolution of reggae music, and dancehall music; legacy of Marcus Garvey; Caribbean and Jamaican cuisine; Rastafarianism; and where he worked before leaving Jamaica to attend Howard University. Lynch detailed his experience as a student at Howard University and as a public school teacher, including how he disciplined students and what he would change about Washington, DC public schools and the educational system. He talked about Jamaican and Caribbean students adjusting to the American school system, the challenges the students face in school, and academic work differences between Jamaica and Washington, DC. Lynch also talked about his book, which documented the evolution of Caribbean immigrant organizations; the importance of Jamaican organizations to Jamaicans in the US and Jamaica; immigration challenges and his decision to become a US citizen; why Jamaicans tend to be self-employed and/or business owners; Jamaican women as domestic workers; use of the partner system instead of United States banking system by many Jamaicans; importance of identity; Jamaicans reluctance to share information about themselves; Jamaican posses; and how Jamaicans are stereotyped. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include very loud white noise and static; interviewee can be heard for the most part.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003351-0
