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Event Name: 鈥淲hen and Where 鈥榃e the People鈥� Enter(ed)鈥�: My People are the 鈥楤鈥� in BIPOC [Our Black Experience and the American Dream from 1830s Louisiana to the Present Moment!鈥�

Presenter: Jolivette Anderson-Douoning

Event Time & Location:聽 Tuesday, November 9, 2021 – 4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., Saint Michael鈥檚 College McCarthy Arts Center – Recital Hall

Jolivette Anderson-Douoning

A public lecture on November 9 by Jolivette Anderson-Douoning — the Inaugural Saint Michael鈥檚 College African American Scholar in Residence — will map the American Dream as it has been lived by Black Americans going back six generations in two northern Louisiana parishes.

鈥淭hose interested in what it means to be ‘Black in America’ and to be ‘Black American’ will gain insight and understanding as we all move forward toward trying to better ourselves, each other, and the United States of America,鈥� said Anderson-Douoning. The lecture starts at 4:45 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center Recital Hall on the Saint Michael鈥檚 campus.

In her presentation of approximately 90 minutes, Anderson-Douoning will outline findings from her dissertation, titled ‘LOUISIANA LEARNING: Race-Space Geographic Education and the Creation of a Black Cultural ‘Place’ in Shreveport’s Hollywood Neighborhood.鈥�

Her topic examines 鈥渢he American Dream as it has been lived by Black Americans going back six generations in Caddo and DeSoto Parishes in North Louisiana,鈥� said Anderson-Douoning, whose聽 research connects 190 years of 鈥減aternal鈥� oral and land ownership history (from 1830s) to 70 years 鈥渕aternal,鈥� “field to factory” history (from late 1940s).

This history will teach the audience lessons 鈥渁bout Race, Anti-Racism, Black Culture, Self-Liberation, Democracy, and survival by using one of many often unheard narratives from the Black American experience in the United States,鈥� she said. 鈥淔amily archives in conversation with Louisiana State University-Shreveport and Southern University Shreveport Archives are the source materials used to center the voice of a Black woman named Mrs. Goldleana.鈥�

鈥淢rs. Goldleana left hand-written documentation of the history of the United States because she wrote down the day-to-day happenings of her rural to urban migration. Her life in her community is a historiography that exemplifies how ‘inclusion’ into the nation’s history should be told and taught,鈥� said Anderson-Douoning, who has been teaching in the Saint Michael鈥檚 History Department this semester while working on her dissertation and immersing herself in community life.