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Interview with Sylvia Ann Soares

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Year:
2008
Contributor:
Soares, Sylvia Ann (interviewee)
Fuentes, Gabrielle (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary works)
Subject:
Soares, Sylvia Ann

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Description

Abstract:
In this interview Ms. Soares shared many of her experiences growing up in Rhode Island. She discusses her family’s alcoholism, gender roles in Cape Verdean families, her own recovery from alcoholism, her father’s harsh discipline, her mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s, and the changes in the Fox Point neighborhood since she grew up. She also shared an incident she was gang-raped by a group young men from Fox Point when she was thirteen. Ms. Soares considered herself an "outsider" of Fox Point and throughout this interview she focuses on incidences that made her feel this way.

Citation

"Interview with Sylvia Ann Soares" (2008). Fox Point Project. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1149885/

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    Fox Point Project

    Since 2008, students from the Brown Center for Public Humanities have worked with Professor Anne Valk on collaborative projects to preserve and present the cultural heritage and social history of the Fox Point neighborhood. An archival collection of oral history …
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