Background
Romero, Patricia Watkins was born on July 28, 1934 in Delaware, Ohio, United States.
(A history of Lamu, once an important East African port ci...)
A history of Lamu, once an important East African port city, now an unspoiled tourist destination. It covers the impact of slavery and the slave trade, the introduction of British colonial rule, health issues, agricultural practices, religious and ceremonial practices, family life, and more.
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( A revealing oral history collection, Profiles in Diver...)
A revealing oral history collection, Profiles in Diversity contains in-depth interviews of twenty-six women in South Africa from different racial, class, and age backgrounds. Conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Vryburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Durban, and a rural section of Kwa-Zulu Natal, these life histories encompass diverse experiences ranging from a squatter in a township outside Cape Town to an ANC activist in Port Elizabeth, who lost three sons to the struggle for democracy and who herself was imprisoned several times during what many in South Africa now refer to as the "civil war." Nearly all of these women describe their formative years spent growing up in South Africa's segregated society. Three young black students discuss the hardships they experienced in an unequal educational system as well as aspects of segregation in their childhood. They are joined in their memories and hopes for the future by two mature women—one now a high court judge in Durban and the other a linguist at the University of South Africa in Pretoria—both of whom studied at Harvard in the United States. Nancy Charton, the first woman ordained as an Anglican priest in South Africa, speaks about her past and what led her, in her early seventies, to a vocation in the church. Three Afrikaner women, including one in her late twenties, speak about growing up in South Africa and articulate their concerns for a future that, in some respects, differs from the predictions of their English-speaking or black sisters. Two now-deceased members of the South African Communist Party provide disparate accounts of what led them to lives of active opposition to the discrimination that marked the lives of people of color, long before apartheid became embedded in South Africa's legal system. Also included is an account by Dr. Goonam, an Indian woman who grew up in relative comfort in the then province of Natal, while Ray Alexander discusses how she witnessed the tyranny visited on the Jews of her native Latvia before immigrating to the Cape.
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Romero, Patricia Watkins was born on July 28, 1934 in Delaware, Ohio, United States.
Bachelor, Center State University, 1964. Master of Arts, Miami (Ohio) University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1971.
Associate for research Association Study of African-American Life History, Washington, 1965-1972. Associate professor University South Florida, Tampa, 1972-1974. Visiting fellow Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1975-1989.
Assistant professor history Towson (Maryland) University, 1989-1993, associate professor, 1993-1998, professor, since 1998. Visiting associate professor Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1984. Consultant Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publications, Newark, since 1994.
Consultant Prentice Hall Publications, since 2005.
( A revealing oral history collection, Profiles in Diver...)
(A history of Lamu, once an important East African port ci...)
Member of advisory board House of Ruth, since 1990, Child Reach International, since 1991.
Daughter of Warren Arthur Watkins and Jean Virginia (McClurkin) Alexander. Divorced; children: Stephen, Arthur, Jeffrey.