2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
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25370324
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | slave trade |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My research activities this past academic year have been characterized by a major international conference in June 2015, and a three-week research trip in March 2016. In between these two events, I have been working toward advancing my book project. The June conference was organized by the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR), and held at Hope University in Liverpool, United Kingdom from June 24-28. There, I gave a talk titled, “Demythologizing the Allmuseri Tribe in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage,” and from that talk, I wrote an essay, “The Allmuseri God in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage,” which is now under submission for a collection called FORECAAST Series (CAAR): Mobilising Memory: Creating African Atlantic Identities (Liverpool University Press).
The research trip (8-24 March) first took me to New York City, where I mainly conducted research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. I then went to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, where I visited and collected data at the new Memorial ACTe of Pointe-a-Pitre (a slave trade memorial and museum). The third leg of that trip was Amsterdam, Netherlands, where I took the Black Heritage Amsterdam Tour (BHAT) and went to see commemorative sculptures of the Netherlands’s colonial past in the Vondelpark. Finally, I went to Nantes, France to see “La Memoires des Anneaux” (the slave trade memorial), and the Chateau des Ducs de Bourgogne, the local castle, which museum focuses on the history of Nantes, including the involvement of the city in the slave trade.
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Research Products
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