Current exhibits
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
April 10 - August 31, 2008
This exhibition, from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Studies in New York, presents a new interpretation of African American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade, the domestic slave trades and the runaway journeys evoked by those trades were coerced; the others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their own world, but also the American political and socio-cultural landscape and the world at large.
sampling of works to be displayed
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