Hey everyone! This week Sandra interviews Nicole Ramsey. Nicole is a first generation PhD Candidate in African Diaspora studies doing work on Belize/Belizeans in the Diaspora, and Black Central America(ns) and the Caribbean at UC Berkeley. She is also a Music enthusiast that uses popular culture and popular music as a form of diasporic education. In the episode Nicole explains to us the history of Garveyism in Central America, her academic journey, her upbringing in LA South Central's Little Belize, and the importance of Afro-Carribean women in her research. Thank you to Nicole for being a great guest!
Links
Intro Song & Transition Song: Greener Pastures - Sro
Featured Song: Splinters - Shal Marshall
Nicole's Instagram: @hereisnicky
Nicole's Twitter: @Nicole_D_Rams
Pablo Lopez Oro's Twitter: @BlackCatrachoBK
Asia Leed's Twitter: @AsiaLeeds
Lara Putnam
Juliet Hooker's Twitter: @CreoleProf
Robert Hill's Bio
Robert Hill presenting on Samuel Haynes
Colin Grant's "Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey"
Anne Macpherson's "From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912-1982 (Engendering Latin America)"
Leela Vernon's Bio
Leela Vernon's Eulogy
Tamika Burgess's Afro-Latina Empowerment Monthly Newsletter "Es Mi Cultura"