Thursday 14 April 2011

New Web resource: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library has just published a new website: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

With 17 essays by various scholars, over 500 images, 8 maps, and 21 videos, Africana Age retraces a turbulent history of challenges, tragedies, and triumphs over the long century.

Essay topics include the Colonisation of Africa, Black Internationalism, W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan-Africanism, African Resistance to Colonial Rule, Marcus Garvey, World War I, Caribbean Social Movements, African Decolonisation, Black Power, Caribbean Independence, the Contemporary Caribbean, and Contemporary Africa.


http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/

No comments: