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ACADÉMICA Y ESCRITORA AFROPANAMEÑA

Melva Lowe de Goodin

Profesora Jubilada de ingles

Melva Lowe de Goodin, is a retired professor of English and the current president of the Society of Friends of the West Indian Museum of Panama. She obtained her B.A. degree in literature from Connecticut College, and her M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Panama, and the Florida State University (FSU) Panama Canal Branch. She initiated and coordinated the English Language Program at FSU Panama for more than 20 years, and served as a professor of English at the University of Panama for more than 30 years.

Melva Lowe de Goodin

President of SAMAAP

Her publications include two academic textbooks, PRACTICAL LESSONS IN ENGLISH, volumes 1 &2. In 1981, she became the founding president of SAMAAP, the Society of Friends of the West Indian Museum of Panama, and in 2018, she was re-elected to the presidency of that organization. Her publications on the history, culture, and experiences of black people in Panama include From Barbados to Panama (1997) and People of African Ancestry in Panama 1501-2012. Melva resides in Panama City with her husband, Orville Goodin, and is the mother of one son, Kwamena Goodin.

Melva Lowe de Goodin

Mother & wife

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NARRANDO LA LLEGADA DE AFRICANOS ESCLAVOS A PANAMÁ

DESTACANDO LAS VIDAS Y CONTRIBUCIONES DE LOS LÍDERES POLÍTICOS DE DESCENSO AFRICANO DURANTE LOS DIFERENTES PERÍODOS HISTÓRICOS

Africanos esclavizados

El libro comienza con la crónica de la llegada de africanos esclavizados a Panamá a principios del siglo XVI y sus experiencias durante las épocas precoloniales y coloniales de la historia del país.

Trabajadores Afro-Antillanos

De gran interés son los capítulos dedicados a las experiencias de los trabajadores antillanos que emigraron a Panamá para la construcción del Ferrocarril Transístmico y el Canal de Panamá, que constituye una parte importante del libro.

Ascendencia africana

El último capítulo concluye con recomendaciones para acciones futuras de individuos y organizaciones que promuevan una mayor visibilidad, respeto y oportunidades para las personas de ascendencia africana en la República de Panamá.

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M Maye
October 7, 2014

Professor Goodin has done an invaluable service for her country and for the African diaspora globally. It was the African migrant laborers who built the Panama Canal, but, credit is almost always given to Europeans. Their descendants faced American racism on the American-run Canal Zone, and, today, their descendants continue to experience marginalization in the only country most of those who remain have ever known. This readable account of their experience and of their unsung contributions provides an important missing piece in the history of blacks in this hemisphere.

Afrolatino Travel
February 21, 2019

Dr. Melva Lowe de Goodin is educating our last Panama group about the institutionalized attack on blackness by the Panamanian republic. Which is still present and operating in contemporary Panamanian society. Dr. Lowe de Goodin educated us on the museum’s efforts to break through the pervasive anti-black rhetoric that plagues our society.

M Maye
October 7, 2014

Congratulations, both to the author, as well as to the Afro Panamanian activists who have fought to make visible what has been kept hidden from Panamanians of all backgrounds.