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From: <jerrykrase@aol.com>
List Editor: "Hellen Lee-Keller, List Editor for H-Amstdy" <hlk@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: DISC: Visual Sociology Class documented on WNET Website
Author's Subject: DISC: Visual Sociology Class documented on WNET Website
Date Written: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Date Posted: Fri, 19 Nov 2009 15:34:02 -0500

 Friends:

A documentary about my students, colleagues and I reaching out to
immigrant communities has been mounted on the front page of the wnet
(NYC public television) website. below is the descripiton and the link
to'hear every voice: nyc and the national park service' by stephen
ogumah. Please contact me directly for the link.

Hear Every Voice:

NYC and the National Park Service, adocumentary by Stephen Ogumah was
created in the summer of 2009. This film documents a civic engagement
project produced in partnership withBrooklyn College of the City
University of New York and Gateway National Recreation Area, a unit of
the National Park Service.

Made possible in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation
through the generous support of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
and the Popplestone Foundation the project was an effort to reach out
to the residents of Brooklyn and Queens. This was one of the tandem
projects created to coincide with the airing of the Ken Burns
documentary, America’s Best Idea about National Parks, in September.

We were very fortunate to have worked together with many dedicated and
creative individuals: Professors Jerry Krase and Jennifer Adams of
Brooklyn College, Steve Ogumah, filmmaker, Jahneille Edwards, Nyocia
Edwards, Carlen Primus, Binish Qadeer, Zareen Tasneem, and Candice
Wright– interns from Macaulay Honors Academy, Brooklyn College, and
the Brooklyn College Academy HS, and our own Sheridan Roberts and
Charles Markis National Park Rangers.

Professor Krase’s Visual Sociology Class provided the foundation for
the students who became the interns for the project. These students
received special training in researching community demographics and
interviewing techniques. They learned about the National Park Service,
its mission of stewardship and Gateway National Recreation Area’s rich
and diverse resources, facilities and programs from the
park’sknowledgeable and enthusiastic ranger staff. Through their
interviews in Caribbean communities of Brooklyn and Queens, the
students have created a bridge for Gateway to a population that has
had limitedexposure to the breadth of the park and have opened a
dialog between the park and the community. This film represents more
than thecompletion of a rewarding project – it is the beginning of new
understanding and involvement.

Jerome Krase
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York

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