Congo Diary: Eslanda Robeson's Second African Journey

Congo Diary: Eslanda Robeson's Second African Journey

This first exhibit charts African American anthropologist and civil rights activist, Eslanda Robeson's travels through colonial Central Africa in 1946. Bringing together sometimes far-flung archival materials, this digital map allows users to visualize black women's travel and mobility as ways of articulating both diaspora and anti-colonial resistance. Ultimately, the goal is to insipire new conversations on the connection between decolonization processes and the making of diaspora.

A. Joseph-Gabriel

Follow Robeson's journey here.

 

Primary sources for this exhibit are located at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

Photo credits: This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project.

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