As a young historian in the 1950s, Alixa Naff began interviewing fellow Arab American immigrants about their experiences straddling two cultures. Over the next few decades, Naff conducted more than 450 such interviews, also known as oral histories.________she collected photographs and other artifacts that represented her subjects’ experiences.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Explanation
Context: Alixa Naff recorded more than 450 oral histories of Arab American immigrants over several decades. The blank introduces her collecting photographs and other artifacts representing her subjects' experiences.
Answer: C) In addition,
Why? Gathering objects is a second form of documentation alongside the interviews, serving the same project of preserving those experiences. "In addition" stacks the new activity onto what she was already doing.
Traps:
- A) "In other words," marks a restatement, but collecting artifacts is a different activity from conducting interviews, not a rewording of it.
- B) "On the contrary," denies or corrects the previous statement, and nothing here disputes that she recorded the oral histories.
- D) "Today," places the artifact collecting in the present, which clashes with the decades of past work the passage describes.