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" «Le Grand Congrès de l’Esprit Noir»: FESTAC '77, Délégation des États-Unis de Jeff Donaldson et Convocation d’une Reaspora africaine "
Collier, Loren Jonathan
Tolbert, Emory J.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1058869
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TL57986
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Collier, Loren Jonathan
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«Le Grand Congrès de l’Esprit Noir»: FESTAC '77, Délégation des États-Unis de Jeff Donaldson et Convocation d’une Reaspora africaine\ Collier, Loren JonathanTolbert, Emory J.
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Howard University
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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243 p.
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In 1977, the worldwide African diasporic community looked inward, towards a Pan-African panacea, and sought to reconstruct a unified African diasporic consciousness. After numerous postponements and over a half-decade of deferments on behalf of host country, Nigeria, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture - otherwise referred to as FESTAC ‘77 - was to be the zenith of cultural expression, political unification, and social kinship amongst the global African Diasporan community. Largely touted and recognized as a month-long showcase and/or trading post of African diasporic culture, the festival’s salience was redoubled by the centerpiece colloquium on Black Civilization and Education. FESTAC stands as a purposeful manifestation of Pan-African ideology and worldview - one that places cultural expression, politics and intellection within the same orbit of critical gravitas. The FESTAC “U.S. and Canada” (or “North American Zone”) delegation may prove to be particularly prescriptive due to its precarious, liminal status as both, a non-state faction, and as a representational diasporic community - one of significant influence. Leading the US delegation was Jeff Donaldson - the co-founder of OBAC (Organization of Black American Culture), co-founder the AfriCOBRA art collective, ardent exponent of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement community, and then chairman of Howard University’s Art Department. As such, against the backdrop of a nucleating, grassroots-oriented, intellectually-adroit Black Power/Arts Movement, Howard University and Washington, DC became a critical hub of Black sociopoliticultural activity. This research study seeks to register the involvement of the Chicago’s Black Arts Movement scene, Jeff Donaldson, the Howard University community, and the entire Black cultural art community in the representation of Black American culture and in addressing the exigencies of the African diasporic world at FESTAC ‘77. The Great Congress of Black Spirit necessarily explores the artists, ideologies, and intellectuals as well as the issues, interests, and intentions of the US delegation leading up to, and during the global event.
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African American studies
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American history
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Art history
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Tolbert, Emory J.
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Howard University
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