Janise Wriddle and Sylester Miles
Recorded
June 5, 2023
Archived
June 5, 2023
52:47 minutes
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Id:
ddb002653
Description
Friends Janise Wriddle (62) and Sylester "Miles" Miles (62) describe their experiences as young students during the period of desegregation in schools. Both recall the racism and colorism they've experienced in their lives.Subject Log / Time Code
Miles (M) describes his early school life.
M speaks about the experience of being bussed to school.
M remembers the experience of a teacher giving him the platform to correct students who had been calling him Sylvester instead of Sylester.
Janise (J) and M discuss their impressions on race as children.
M talks about early memories of his first black teachers.
J describes the first teacher that made her feel seen.
M speaks about his relationship with a science teacher as a student.
J recalls her childhood friends and their influence on her.
J remembers an instance of colorism from her Black teacher.
J and M recall their responsibilities as kids.
M speaks about the colorism he experienced in the home and how he searched for support from friends' parents.
M recalls how school was a space where he could be a kid– except for the treatment he would later experience by friends in High School.
J describes the difficulty of not being part of the majority in school.
J tells a story illuminating the racist treatment of students at the school where she works.
J describes the racism and bias that continue in integrated spaces.
J speaks about the experience of racist attitudes she receives from her students.
Both M and J describe the legacies they hope to leave.
Participants
- Janise Wriddle
- Sylester Miles