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Daffinrud, Solveig (SC 2111)
Get PDFFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2111. Note from Solveig Daffinrud, Edina, Minnesota to Sue Lynn McDaniel, Bowling Green, Kentucky relating tho their mutual friendship with Joe Kimbrough. Also includes two photos of Kimbrough
2111: Finding African America
Get PDFDuring the Great Migration, six million African Americans relocated from the south tonorthern and western cities in the U.S. in search of better job opportunities and a better quality oflife away from Jim Crow segregation and racial violence. Afro-futurism is a concept thatimagines African diasporic futures which explore themes of migration, identity, andempowerment. According to journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson the year 2111 is whenAfrican Americans will be free as long as we were enslaved — but does this date mark in space,time, myth, or mind the founding of Africa America? Through the mediums of photography,collage, painting, sculpture, and performance I embark upon a journey beyond time and space tocreate a home for me, my kinfolk, my ancestors, and my descendants, where we can recognize, ifnot escape, the nightmare of Western history and induce the liberating dreams of the Afro-Future.</p
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