Sady Sullivan
I'm totally excited for the Royal Wedding. And despite being a Revolutionary War buff, I plan to be among the 1-2 billion people across the globe who will happily tune in to watch on April 29th.
To prepare for the wedding, I'm excited to attend a talk given by Pearl Duncan here at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Wednesday, April 27th at 7pm. Pearl Duncan will describe how she used family nicknames and oral history to begin tracing her ancestry from the U.S. and Jamaica to the Akan people of Ghana and Scottish nobles related to royals.
It's a great genealogical
journey! Pearl will play with ideas of mixed marriage: interracial ancestry and William and Kate's Royal +"commoner" marriage. And there will be free food provided by Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery!
This is the first program in a new series Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, a series of public conversations about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective.
Thanks to funding provided by New York Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities!
The New York Times featured this event on Friday, April 22! Also here.
Join us post-wedding on April 30th to hear Suleiman Osman talk about his great new book The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar Brooklyn.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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