Yvonne Brown: "Haunting personal memories of the legacy of African enslavement in Jamaica and the production of an auto-ethnography". Tubman Seminar Series, September 14, 2010.

Yvonne Brown, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2010-2011) for the project “Slavery, Memory, Citizenship”, The Harriet Tubman Institute, presented "Haunting personal memories of the legacy of African enslavement in Jamaica and the production of an auto-ethnography and memoir". 

 

Short Biography:

Yvonne Brown is a teacher, lecturer, researcher, educational administrator and one time politician. Her most recent publication is the book Dead Woman Pickney (2010), chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history. The author’s coming of age parallels the political stages of Jamaica’s moving from the richest Crown colony of Great Britain to an independent nation within the British Commonwealth of Nations.