"Voices from our America"Project, oral histories of Panamanians of West Indian descent

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Voices from our America (VFOA)
Category : Workgroup
The Voices from Our America project uses innovative collaborative research and dissemination methods to facilitate cross-cultural and cross-generational conversation within and between the U.S. and Latin America. It does so by uncovering previously hidden or neglected histories of American experience, particularly those of people of African descent, and generating novel methods and venues by and through which students, faculty, community members, and institutional stakeholders -- people from an unconventionally broad range of cultural, social, and epistemological positions, can work collaboratively to advance local and hemispheric knowledge, connectedness, and cooperation. This work has the potential to immeasurably enrich our understandings of the particularities, similarities, disparities, and complexities that constitute life in Our America and, by extension, of ourselves. Work Group Members:
-Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo, Associate Professor, Department of English (PI)
-Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History
-Teresa Goddu, Director of the Program in American Studies
-Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Professor of Philosophy and African American and Diaspora Studies
-Leslie George, Ethnomusicologist, Specialized University of the Americas, Center for Afro-Panamanian Studies
-Melva Lowe de Goodin, English Professor and former Director/Department chair (retired), University of Panama
-Jean Harris, Professor of Anthropology (retired), Panama

http://afropanavisions.com/Documents/vfoa_newsletter200805english.pdf