Lynda R. Day (Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York)

Submitted: Sat, 12 June 2004


Lynda R. Day
Associate Professor and Chairperson
Africana Studies Department
Brooklyn College-City University of New York
3105 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York   11210  USA

phone:     718-951-5597
fax:       718-951-4707
e-mail:    LDay@brooklyn.cuny.edu 



Research interests include:  Women in precolonial politics. Mende women 
chiefs. Ghana tourism. African American history on Long Island.
 
Courses taught: African History survey. Social History of Africa, 
1750-1945 (graduate), African Culture and Religions in the New World, 
Introduction to Contemporary Africa.
 

Selected Publications:
 
"What's Tourism Got to Do With It?: The Yaa Asantewa Legacy and 
Development in Asanteman." Africa Today (Fall 2004).
 
"Long Live the Queen!: the Yaa Asantewa Centenary Celebrations and the 
Politics of History."  Ghana Studies Journal (Fall 2001).
 
Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. 
Heart of the Lakes Press, 1997.
 
"The Evolution of Female Chiefship During the Late Nineteenth Century Wars 
of the Mende." International Journal of African Historical Studies (Fall 
1994).