Nassau, Bahamas - The Bahamas Historical Society will present Arthur Dion Hanna Jr.,
Director, Legal Aid Clinic Eugene
Dupuch Law School, who will speak on
"Land and Freedom: One Bahamas and a Tale of Two Cities" on April 7th at 6:00pm.
This talk explores the plural realities of African
diasporan social relations of family and land tenure and the imperative for
distributive justice as an essential for sustainable social development in the
Bahamas. Of necessity, this entails an examination of the confluence of race,
class and gender at the epicenter of Bahamian family and related patterns of
land tenure engendered by slavery and colonialism, and in the dynamic
interaction of the official common law legal system, or state law, on the daily
lived experiences of those ordinary, everyday Bahamians who are descendants of
Africans involuntarily brought to the coral crested archipelago in bondage and
enslavement and who have sustained and preserved many of their traditional
customs and legal practices, including the traditional African legal concept of
land tenure, known in the Bahamas as
Generation or
Family property, brought
by their ancestors in the bowels of slave ships across the infamous
Middle
Passage.
In this regard, our exploration engages interrelated patterns of
cohabitation and kinship engendered by the Bahamian and wider Caribbean
colonial experience and the dynamic interaction of the official common law
legal system with the social and cultural norms and realities of many ordinary,
everyday Bahamians and their customary law concepts of land tenure, family and
inheritance.
Here
are the YouTube links to Dion Hanna's speech (Thanks to Robert Dorsett once
again)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_kwCUfSAE6g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kuk-cpGWj4s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RqsbTiIJ4Aw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0tFV4_6CseQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=iRl45lUShZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Dypy3cjFKfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jEhxcn5arvk
The Bahamas Historical Society (BHS)
is
a non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating interest in Bahamian
History and to the collection and preservation of material relating
thereto. Its Headquarters, the former IODE Hall, was a gift from the
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). BHS is on Shirley
Street and Elizabeth Avenue in Nassau.
www.bahamashistoricalsociety.
com
All
talks at our museum corner of Shirley Street and Elizabeth Avenue Parking at
the ex Psilinakis carpark north of the museum on Elizabeth Ave. Entrance
via First Caribbean Bank on Shirley Street. – Thanks to Manager Byron
Miller (Thanks to Philippa Moss COB English Dept for Map below)
