Reclaiming African Culture: Edda Fields-Black, Irene d’Almeida, Dr. Carol Boyce Davies, Dr. Tera Hunter and Dr. Janis A. Mayes
Discussion Panel
Saturday, Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, 1st Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Irene Assiba d'Almeida
Irene Assiba d’Almeida, author of A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa (University of Virginia Press), is professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Arizona. Her books include Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence.
Carol Boyce Davies
Carol Boyce Davies, moderator of the Diaspora Panel, is a professor of English and African American studies at Cornell University. She is author of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones and general editor of The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora.
Edda L. Fields-Black
Edda L. Fields-Black, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of History, is a specialist in the history of pre-colonial and West African history. She has conducted research and lived in Guinea, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, and Georgia to uncover the history of African rice farmers and rice cultures She is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora.
Tera W. Hunter
Tera W. Hunter, a native of Miami, is professor of history and African-American studies at Princeton University. Her first book, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, received several prizes, including the H. L. Mitchell Award from the Southern Historical Association. She’s the co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas and African American Urban Studies: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present. She graduated from Miami Edison Sr. High, Duke University (B. A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).
Janis A. Mayes
Janis A. Mayes, associate professor of African-American studies at Syracuse University, is the co-editor of A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women’s Poetry in Francophone Africa (University of Virginia Press).
Schedule
| Saturday, Nov. 14, 5:00 p.m. |
Free |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, 1st Floor)
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