Richardson, YolandaAllen, Rose MaryBala, Struti2024-09-262024-09-262024Richardson, Y. (2024). Chapter 21: Nine houses, nine families: Oral history in the Rancho neighborhood. In: Allen, R.M., Bala, S. (2024). Handbook of Gender Studies in the Dutch Caribbean. Brill. pp. 266-275.978900469087597890046908822950-2993https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14473/1086Using oral historical research interviews with forty-two long-term residents of the Aruban neighborhood of Rancho, this contribution presents glimpses from the social history of a closely knit, enterprising, matrifocal community. The research formed the- basis of an exhibition held in 2009 at the National Archaeological Museum in Aruba, located in Rancho. The exhibition sought to challenge hardwired stereotypes about the area being a derelict drug den by foregrounding the daily lives of its resilient and enterprising community members, the memories of people’s involvements in political and labor struggles in the 1940s and 1950s as well as the unique relations of the community to the coastline. The contribution charts how the socioeconomic transformations during the twentieth century impacted the daily lives of Rancho residents.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/H2 Book chapter