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		<title>LEGACY. A WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO HEALING</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This 400+page memoir chronicles the author’s life from the relatively unknown little South American country of Guyana, once British Guiana, to the United States of America, perhaps the most important country in the world. PART 1                  The Journey Begins                   British Guiana PART 2                  The Journey Continues              America PART 3                  The Journey Back Home            Guyana PART 4                  The Journey Ends                       America Experience important historical and contemporary events through the author’s eyes, her 46 years of memories as a student and faculty member of Howard University, as well as the deep psychological scars that shaped her consciousness.]]></description>
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PART 1                  The Journey Begins                   British Guiana

PART 2                  The Journey Continues              America

PART 3                  The Journey Back Home            Guyana

PART 4                  The Journey Ends                       America

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		<title>Connecting with my African Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This book is not only about connection but also about discovery.  As one who was skeptical of DNA testing, I never envisioned that I would have my DNA analyzed. However, after viewing shows where DNA testing was central to the outcome as well as shows chronicling how numerous personalities had discovered their roots and unknown family, I took the plunge, dutifully swabbing my inner cheeks, mailing off the kit, and waiting in anticipation for the results.  Surely, I thought, my complicated heritage would not be revealed. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[This book is not only about connection but also about discovery.  As one who was skeptical of DNA testing, I never envisioned that I would have my DNA analyzed. However, after viewing shows where DNA testing was central to the outcome as well as shows chronicling how numerous personalities had discovered their roots and unknown family, I took the plunge, dutifully swabbing my inner cheeks, mailing off the kit, and waiting in anticipation for the results.  Surely, I thought, my complicated heritage would not be revealed.

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		<title>FINDING MY ROOTS AND OTHER STORIES</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kubitt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A DNA test that the author takes provides the impetus for these ten short stories set mainly in the Linden area of Guyana, South America. The first story, “Finding My Roots”, not only focuses on the author’s European roots but also on the fact that her African roots, the majority of her DNA, will never be unearthed or explored. The backdrop of most of the stories is the scenic Demerara River on the east bank of which the author lived for twelve years. (THIS BOOK IS HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED!)]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[A DNA test that the author takes provides the impetus for these ten short stories set mainly in the Linden area of Guyana, South America. The first story, “Finding My Roots”, not only focuses on the author’s European roots but also on the fact that her African roots, the majority of her DNA, will never be unearthed or explored. The backdrop of most of the stories is the scenic Demerara River on the east bank of which the author lived for twelve years. (THIS BOOK IS HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED!)]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kubitt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Ann Mansfield, the colored woman who had eight children with Robert Frederick Allicock, and her family.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[This novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Ann Mansfield, the colored woman who had eight children with Robert Frederick Allicock, and her family.  It explores her maternal ancestral roots in Africa, the family’s abduction from Africa and their horrendous journey via The Middle Passage, slavery in Guyana, as well as the budding Anti-Slavery movement.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kubitt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This novel is a fictionalized account of the struggles of my mother’s family, the Allicocks, whose ancestor, the white Scottish owner of Plantation Noit Gedacht, had 8 children with Ann Mansfield, a colored woman.  The story explores the history of Linden (McKenzie/Mackenzie) and its place in the development of Guyana, including the conflict between the Allicocks and the Demerara Bauxite Company which acquired much of their ancestral land supposedly by false pretenses.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[This novel is a fictionalized account of the struggles of my mother’s family, the Allicocks, whose ancestor, the white Scottish owner of Plantation Noit Gedacht, had 8 children with Ann Mansfield, a colored woman.  The story explores the history of Linden (McKenzie/Mackenzie) and its place in the development of Guyana, including the conflict between the Allicocks and the Demerara Bauxite Company which acquired much of their ancestral land supposedly by false pretenses.]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>STEPPING ON CRACKS.  REFLECTIONS ON MY HOMELAND</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kubitt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After almost five decades away, Doreen, a retired senior citizen, returns to her birth country to discover whether she could spend the last days of her life in a place that had nurtured her and contributed to the woman she had become.  Indeed, she had departed just two years after British Guiana had received its independence from Great Britain, lowered the Union Jack, raised the Golden Arrowhead, renamed itself Guyana, and set out to chart its path as a cooperative republic. At first everything seems new and exciting, but soon she finds herself sliding down a path of disillusionment.  The... ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[After almost five decades away, Doreen, a retired senior citizen, returns to her birth country to discover whether she could spend the last days of her life in a place that had nurtured her and contributed to the woman she had become.  Indeed, she had departed just two years after British Guiana had received its independence from Great Britain, lowered the Union Jack, raised the Golden Arrowhead, renamed itself Guyana, and set out to chart its path as a cooperative republic.

At first everything seems new and exciting, but soon she finds herself sliding down a path of disillusionment.  The old culture resurfaces, trying to drown her in a morass, and soon her “first” world consciousness clashes with a “third” world reality.  Yet she finds pleasure in exploring and recording the history of the Linden area as well as the culture embedded deep in her psyche. Eventually, she finds herself stepping on the proverbial crack that would “break her mother’s back.”  After six months, she realizes that, like Thomas Wolfe, she “can’t go home again.”]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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