In the first session, Deon Sass discusses the challenges of social distancing, spirituality and religion, dating during COVID, and the Black Lives Matter movement. He talks about his relationship to his job and society. In the second session, Sass talks about his desire to move and go back to school, as well as the challenges he encountered in being unemployed during the pandemic and his current jo bs in the wine and alcoholic beverage industry
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Alcoholic beverage industry; Wine industry; Food delivery services; Spiritual formation; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Sass, Déon, 1989-
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
79 pages
Note (Biographical)
Déon Sass is a Black, African American man from Brooklyn. At the time of this interview, was furloughed from his job with a hospitality group and working for Instacart. Sass is also an artist and co-creator of a beverage company called Quick Witted C ocktails
Note
Interviewed by Janée Moses on July 20 and September 17, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Déon Sass, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023