ABSTRACT
Oral history is collaborative work. But while oral historians regularly talk about care for the narrator—building trust, establishing rapport, honoring reciprocity, and protecting privacy—much less is said about the care required to maintain a spirit of open collaboration as projects develop. This chapter explores the ethics of care that deeply informed a collaborative oral history and public humanities project I directed at Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) between 2011 and 2015: “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” (CBBG). In doing so, I address how feminist relational-cultural theory informed the project and how an ethics of care can usefully link oral history praxis and feminist research methodology.
