The Coloured Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers
Brenda DoHarris was born in British Guiana, now the independent territory of Guyana, where she grew up.  She is a professor of English at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland and a graduate of Columbia University and Howard University where she received the PhD in English.  The first Guyanese woman to run in Guyana for office of presidency of a trades union, she became actively involved in the Guyanese political movement for democracy during the seventies.  She has travelled widely in Africa, the Caribbean and China where she attended the U.S.\China Joint Conference on Women's Issues.  Her area of scholarly interest is post-colonial women's literature.