<P class="fontlook"><B>CARROLLTON ALUMNA:  EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK</B>

 

<P class="fontlook">Recently, Carrollton welcomed Edda Fields-Black ’89, who spoke to High School students at assembly. Edda is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of History and is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Her book is a culmination of eight years of fieldwork and archival research in the Republic of Guinea and France and was featured in the Miami Book Fair International earlier this month.  As described on her homepage, Deep Roots "focuses on the innovation of these rice-growing techniques that would subsequently play an important role in the growth of commercial rice industries in the American South. Employing a unique blend of interdisciplinary sources, the book reconstructs the development of tidal rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the trans-Atlantic slave trade." 

 

<P class="fontlook">The students gained a deep perspective and understanding of how Carrollton played an important role and deeply influenced Edda throughout her life.  We thank Carrollton Alumna Edda Fields-Black for serving as a role model to our students.

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