WRITER
“I seek to tell stories that have not been told, to deepen our understanding of American democracy, and to show how struggles for social justice in the United States are connected to global struggles for respect, freedom, and equality.” ~ Tammy L. Brown, Ph.D.
City of Islands is a multi-biographical study of how Caribbean intellectuals used the written, spoken, and performed word (i.e. sermons, speeches, dance, novels, etc.) to challenge racism in modern America. In this book, I also analyze the gendered dimensions of Caribbean intellectualism—from the overwhelmingly male religious and political leadership of the early twentieth century to the advent of Caribbean women artist-activists at the mid-century mark. This study documents the long history of political collaborations and cultural clashes between Caribbean immigrants and American-born Blacks from the 1920s through the present, which underscores the book’s primary theme of “diversity within Blackness” in the United States.
City of Islands
This eBook is an internationally collaborative appeal in the cause of peace. It includes poetry by poets from New Zealand, China, Egypt, Ireland, England, Cuba, Canada, and the United States—accompanied by mixed media art by the curator, Tammy L. Brown, PhD. In the broad tradition of engaged intellectualism and artistic activism, Dr. Brown created this anthology to encourage all of us to do all we can to promote peace on a local, national, and global level.
The Art of War & Peace
This digital anthology features the biographies of eight rising, gifted, and Black literary, visual, and performance artists. As a public history project for Black History Month, the purpose of this digital resource is to educate audiences about the diversity of creative expression among contemporary Black artists. Black Arts Live! has been well received—including recognition by HASTAC (Humanities, Art, Science, Technology Advanced Collaboratory).