Presented by University of Minnesota graduate students in Geography and Professors Queen Quet and Kate Derickson
In April 2018, a packed house heard Queen Quet, the elected chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee nation, present “Free to Be Who WEBE: The Gullah/Geechee Fight for Freedom and Identity.” If you attended that presentation – or if you missed that presentation – you will want to watch this presentation, not only to learn about the history and culture of the Gullah/Geechee people, not only to hear from the remarkable Queen Quet and her colleague and East Side Freedom Library collaborator, Kate Derickson, the reader of “Stories for (Little) People” every Saturday morning at ESFL, but also to learn about “a story map” as a way of producing and presenting knowledge.
Queen Quet is the Fall 2020 Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Kate Derickson is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the U of M, and together, they have been teaching a graduate course called “WEBE Gullah/Geechee." Students in their course collaborated to create a St. Helena Island centered StoryMap which provides a historical chronology of the South Carolina Sea Island which has been home for centuries by African-descended people who identify as Gullah and Geechee. In this evening’s presentation, students will share the StoryMap and Queen Quet and Kate Derickson will discuss the collaboration and respond to your questions.
View the video: https://youtu.be/dN68Gj_xG4k
