Poet and Scholar Jason Vasser, Interview on the Ferguson Experience, Language, and Justice · WRSTL PLACE

Item sets: The Ferguson Collection; Black Lives Matter Movement; Activism and Civil Rights Movements

Title: Poet and Scholar Jason Vasser, Interview on the Ferguson Experience, Language, and Justice
Description: This interview with poet and scholar Jason Vasser is a version of an oral history interview called a “literacy narrative.” Literacy narratives prompt people to share experiences with communication broadly defined–how people read, write, speak, and rhetorically engage with the world around them.

This literacy narrative focuses in particular on how language and other communicative practices shape conversations about and understandings of the 2014 Ferguson Uprising. This narratives was shared in the spring of 2015, so Vasser offers a first-hand, close-to-the-event perspective.
Creator: Lauren Obermark
Subject: Ferguson; Jason Vasser; Language; Poetry; Social Justice; Oral History Interview
Spatial Coverage: Recorded on the UMSL campus
Type: Interview, oral story
Date: February 17, 2015
Format: video; hosted on external dwebsite
Publisher: Lauren Obermark
Contributor: Lauren Obermark