"Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad" with Tamara J. Walker

Podcast

Oct 12

Tamara J. Walker discusses her book Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad which was released this summer.

Credit: Sylvie Rosokoff

About Tamara

Tamara J. Walker is a historian, writer, and non-proﬁt founder with wide-ranging interests. As an academic, her scholarship focuses on three interrelated thematic areas: the history of slavery and freedom in Latin America; the process of racial formation in the region; and the ways in which gender shaped the experience of enslavement and racialization. Tamara’s scholarship is also inspired by the methodological concern of recovering the subjectivities of enslaved and free people of African descent who rarely had direct access to writing and whose voices were heavily mediated when they did appear on record.

Because of how formative travel has been for Tamara, and because she knows how cost-prohibitive it can be, she was moved to co-found The Wandering Scholar, a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to make international education opportunities accessible to students from low-income backgrounds. As the first person in her family to graduate college and pursue an advanced degree, she understands that all it takes is the right opportunity at the right moment in time to change a person’s entire trajectory in life, and The Wandering Scholar works to create just that.

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