Conducting a Life History Interview
Homework #3:
Conducting a Life History Interview (Angrosino, Conducting a Life History Interview
2007) – Using the guidelines in chapter three, conduct a life history interview with an adult woman
of your acquaintance (not a close friend or family member!), preferably a person who self-
describes as being of a different race or ethnicity than you, the interviewer.
To guide this research, ask them about their life experience with race and gender as a part of their work experience. This project corresponds to the chapters on Race and Ethnicity and Gender and
Sexuality in your text (Brown 2017) The overall research question is: “How has your race/ethnicity
or gender affected your work experience?” Some more specific questions should include the
following:
What jobs have you had over the course of your life?
At each job, can you tell me what your general duties included?
At each job, can you tell me what position you held and if you were a supervisor to other
people?
At each job, can you tell me if you had a supervisor of a different race, ethnicity, or
gender than yourself and what that experience was like?
What was the best job that you ever held?
Was your race, ethnicity, or gender a factor in any of the jobs that you held? In what
ways?
