Tag: Geechee Gullah Heritage
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Let the Circle of Sista PhDs be Unbroken!
As I have continued to make my rounds at professional conferences, summer institutes, and various university campuses I have been overjoyed to learn of all the other thirty-something black female PhDs who are making waves in the academy! It’s always great to see a friendly face, but to make contact with a friendly face…
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Geechee Relatives????
In my secret, undercover life I am an amateur genealogist and have been working on compiling my family pedigree since I was about seventeen. Recently, I discovered a familiar name in the most unlikely of places!!! As I was preparing to teach my ENGL 3960 course, “The Gullah Presence in African American Literature by Women,” …
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In Search of Ibo Landing….
Back in September, my good friend and I ventured to St. Simons Island to visit the ocean and place ourselves on historic Ibo Landing and other various places our slave ancestors formerly occupied (See: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2895 for the story behind Ibo Landing). Much to our dismay NONE of the visitor’s center brochures/maps even made mention of…
Kameelah L. Martin, Ph.D. 