Program

Education Programs: Presidentially Designated Institutions

Period of Performance

1/1/2003 - 12/31/2006

Funding Totals

$25,800.00 (approved)
$25,800.00 (awarded)


The Garifuna Project: A Vanishing Culture Speaks

FAIN: HI-21054-03

Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA 70125-1056)
Susan Fitch Spillman (Project Director: June 2002 to May 2009)

A project to conduct interviews with members of the Garifuna community, a Spanish-speaking Afro-Latin group concentrated in New Orleans, and to incorporate this and other related projects into the teaching of an interdisciplinary seminar for undergraduates.