Untitled [U.S. Africanists: Who they are; Why to fight them]
- Title:
- Untitled [U.S. Africanists: Who they are; Why to fight them]
- Alternate Title:
- U.S. Africanists: Who they are; Why to fight them
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Everdell, Coburn D.
- Date:
- 1969
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2297.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2297_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Politics & Government
Other Moral & Social
Pictorial
Ethnocentrism - Measurement:
- 43 x 28 sheet (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This centerfold illustrates a polemic pamphlet attacking the role of the U.S. government and private institutions engaged in ostensibly beneficial activity in Africa. A wide range of foundations (Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller), universities (Boston, UCLA, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern), government agencies (State, Defense, CIA, HEW, NSF, NDEA) and unnamed corporations are seen dispensing so many research, teaching, writing and other grants, along with other forms of assistance, that the continent of Africa is literally crumbling under their weight.
The pamphlet is entitled “African Studies in America: The Extended Family. A tribal analysis of U.S. Africanists: Who they are; Why to fight them.” It was published by the Africa Research Group, “a radical research and education project concerned with exposing and combating U.S. imperialism in Africa.” It was “produced for initial distribution at the African Studies Association Convention meeting on the first day of the Vietnam moratorium in insurrectionary Montreal, October 1969.” p.2. In 54 pages, the pamphlet details the work of numerous institutions and individuals shaping “the new framework of neo-colonial rule and imperialist domination.” p.3. The cover shows an academic in mortar board and bow tie, who is apparently lowering a bucket of black ink onto Southeast Africa (or perhaps hauling up a bucket of oil?).
The Africa Research Group was organized in 1968 “to politicize African issues” and “to encourage, if not inspire, political actions.” Schecter 1976, 42. It dissolved in 1972, “in part out of a frustration with the apparent political marginality of our work.” Ibid.
The illustrations are by Coburn Overdell, who was a graduate student in architecture at the Harvard School of Design at the time, and in 1916 was an architect in the San Francisco Bay area.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Africa Research Group. 1969. African Studies in America: The Extended Family. A tribal analysis of U.S. Africanists: Who they are; Why to fight them. Cambridge, Mass.: Africa Research Group.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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