| 词条 | Marquetta Goodwine |
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Marquetta L. Goodwine, who was elected Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation,[1] is a native of St. Helena Island, South Carolina. She is an author, preservationist, and performance artist. The Gullah/Geechee corridor begins in North Carolina and extends southward to Jacksonville, Florida, encompassing the Sea Islands and the Lowcountry. Goodwine is the founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition. In 1999 she became the first Gullah to speak before the United Nations, giving testimony at an April 1 hearing of the Commission on Human Rights in Switzerland.[2] She has since been invited to participate in the United Nations Forum on Minority Rights which was first established in 2008. Goodwine is also the Chair of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor General Management Plan and Expert Commissioner for South Carolina. She is a member of the 15-person commission established by the United States Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act which was passed by the United States Congress. Goodwine served as a consultant for the 2000 Mel Gibson film The Patriot, which featured scenes set on the South Carolina coast of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. She has been an advisor to several historic documentaries, including This Far by Faith: The African American Religious Experience, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Slavery and the Making of America, Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, and The Will to Survive: The Story of the Gullah/Geechee Nation. She also lectures throughout the world. She is the founder of a historic presentation troupe "De Gullah Cunneckshun", which has recorded several CDs and been featured on films and film soundtracks. Books
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Finney|first=Carolyn|title=Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyOiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT101|accessdate=21 September 2015|year=2014|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=9781469614496|page=101}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackbusinesslist.com/as-gullahqueen.htm|title=The Gullah Queen|last=|first=|date=|website=African Soul|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010405004936/http://www.blackbusinesslist.com/africansoul.htm|archive-date=2005-08-25|dead-url=|access-date=2019-04-01}} External links
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