The National Library and Information Systems Authority (NALIS) in collaboration with Joanne Kilgour Dowdy launched the book “In the Public Eye”, and workshop, entitled “The making of a photo autobiography IN THE PUBLIC EYE”at the National Library in March, 2010.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The book has been created from the memories and memorabilia of some forty years. It is a celebration of colour and movement, in pictures that span productions over 40 years. The viewer has a chance to travel the road as a performer in Trinidad and the United States of America. The book is a salute to Joanne’s talents on and off stage, before and behind the television camera. Personal memories accompany each of the photographs and newspaper clippings round off the collection giving history buffs a social context to further appreciate the photo essay.
She is the author of seven (7) books including: The Skin that we speak (2002), Ph.D. Stories: Conversations with my Sisters (2008) and Readers of the Quilt (2005).
Professor Dowdy is the author of seven (7) books The skin that we speak(2002), GED stories: Black women and Their Struggle for Social Equity (2003), Racism, Research, and Educational Reform: Voices from the City (2005), Readers of the Quilt: Essays on Being Black, Female and Literate (2005), Ph. D. Stories: Conversations with my Sisters (2008), Connecting the literacy puzzle : Linking the professional, personal, and Social Literacies and In the Public Eye (2009).