Collected Item: “Full-Virtual Work in the Middle of a Pandemic”
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Full-Virtual Work in the Middle of a Pandemic
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This document was created and shared by myself and some coworkers at my employment in the History department at my university, St. Mary's. This document was the result of a project we were all assigned to work together on regarding researching the African-American community in West San Antonio. The work was not easy. Being separated from each other meant coordinating and collaborating was very difficult, and actually accomplishing much in the way of actual work was slow going, with few of us actually being able to work together at the times the others were available. Not helping in any way was the fact that working remotely left us with almost no oversight from our supervisor, who was also in charge of several other projects in the department. Our research also took many different forms before settling on the one it ended up in, and it suffered most greatly from most of the workers assigned not being in the city we needed to be in, not having access to any traditional resources like proper records or non-digital resources that might have gone into the detail that we needed, and of course being unable to properly help each other. Despite this however, when we finally were able to coordinate a time to collaborate and work together, we surprisingly were able to unearth the aspect shown here, the resurrection of the Keyhole Club by noted Jazz musician Don Albert, famous for being a fully racially integrated nightclub during a time when such a thing was unheard of, and was challeneged. Despite some serious challenges of our own, my coworkers and I were able to emerge successful after all and provide some much-needed information to the assignment.
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#coveryourfangs, #HS3390, #workstudy, #college, #university, #research, #sanantonio, #nightclub, #club, #keyhole, #donalbert
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Oscar Ortega
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2020-11-13