The inner city intern, part I

culture and memory

pp. 21-32

in: Heather Macdonald, Cultural and critical explorations in community psychology, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

In my first year as a doctoral intern, I worked at an African American social service agency in Portland, Oregon, and it was there that I came to understand that cultural memory is anything but private—it is something we live into together. Simply put, "Memory is relational" (Ullman, 2011, p. 269) and "everything but static and past tense" (Stern, 2011). I also learned that cultural memory and collective identity are political in ways we do not understand.