She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
Caution!!
In 2009, I developed a project using an abolitionist poster from 1851. The broadside was originally posted in the streets as a warning to the Coloured People of Boston and was in opposition to the Fugitive Slave law of 1850 that was a threat to all African Americans. The law required citizens to help catch runaways and warned that those who aided a fugitive could be fined or imprisoned. An interracial group formed the Boston Committee of Vigilance and issued the poster to alert free African-Americans to the presence of Policemen who were acting as Slave Catchers and Kidnappers.
Colonial Blackness
Professor of History at Rutgers University, Herman Bennett, selected this relief print, Putting on My Blackness, 1987, for the cover of his book, Colonial Blackness - A History of Afro-Mexico, published by Indiana University Press, 2009.
Hatchlings – A Requiem
Hatchlings - A Requiem, situates the fifteen member countries as insular national states, lying on a bed of the shredded Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Thoughts on Prime Minister Thompson’s New “Amnesty”
In the Diaspora is one of a series of fortnightly columns for the Stabroek newspaper from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean. This article is a response to Prime Minister David Thompson’s new government policies determined by the Subcommittee on Immigration established in June 2008. The Thompson administration came into power in part on an anti-immigration platform.