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"