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oral histories he produces, won't we wantto note that he was paid by his interviewee?This is particularly fraught for black-white interviews. Inthe 1930s and 1940s, when opinion polling was first used, polling firms likeGallup spent a lot of time figuring out how best to get "honest" answersfrom black interview subjects. Some early pollsters found that it helped tosend black interviewers to talk to black subjects; and, during World War II,government pollsters found that it helped to tell the black interviewees thatthe government was running the poll. (In the Rooseveltyears, black Americans placed a lot of trust in the government, certainlytrusting it more than many other institutions).When we use the WPA narratives as history, then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we might want to start by doing a few things:- Flag them for our readers as WPA narratives, and attempt to explain how they were collected and recorded;- Put them in a historical context. What was the income of that older black woman, or a woman like her, at the time that

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