Practically all of my experiences at gaining information regarding Blacks in this continent of the Americas have been fraught with frustrations. Some of the most famous and reliable libraries and archives have no registry for the history of Blacks or of people of African descent. So it has continued to be until our day here [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Black-Studies-in-Panama’
05/14/2009
The Shaping of Black Literature and Culture
The academic community in most countries of the Americas continues to shy away from integrating into their universal educational systems or even their Institutes of Black or Ethnic Studies, such studies that would make up the core curriculum of disciplines that would inform and shape their students regarding the distinctiveness of people of color and [...]
05/08/2009
The Road to Westindian Literature- Some Thoughts
The road to the placing of real Black Literature in the hands of Black and Latin American children has been paved with much difficulty and many disheartening experiences, at least in my own experience. The age for our people, the Panamanian Westindian, to gain that realization of the harm that such deprivation causes, like not [...]
04/29/2009
Black Ethnicity Day Celebration in Panama
The fact that Black Ethnicity is being celebrated yearly on the 30th of May in Panama has now a permanent place in our culturally diverse country. There is, however, a special history behind the development of the recognition of our ethnic identity which for so long was denied. The person responsible for the events being [...]
