in memory

I just presented my second paper on Miami's racial and spatial politics, this time at the Association for the Worldwide Study of the African Disaspora (ASWAD) in Charleston, SC. There, I toured Ft. Sumter and enjoyed being near my beloved Atlantic Ocean. I was drawn, too, to the trees in the area, among them palms. This talk served as a reminder of why this past summer's tribute to the participants in the ethnographic part of my study was important. Many of them are aging. My great uncle Alton Andrews, who is pictured here, could not attend. He died in September. He is the second interviewee who is no longer with us (Betty Ann Gooden, my great aunt, passed away in April 2014). I hope to do them all proud as the research continues.