November 7th, 2008
Overview | Methods & Process | Who We are | Collaborators
The Comparative Black Liberation research team videotaped oral history and ethnomusicological interviews in and around both King William’s Town, South Africa, and Coahoma County, Mississippi. They interviewed people who experienced the anti-apartheid struggle and Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. These interviews provide an often un-articulated perspective into these important transitional times.
In South Africa, the research team worked in the archives of University of Fort Hare, South Africa’s oldest historically black university and home to an expansive Black Consciousness collection. In their research, they sought out information that would inform their particular section of the project: liberation philosophy, lived experiences, memorials, or music.
The team created this website, in order to make the research available to the global academic community and the communities in which they conducted research.