NOTE:
As of March 29, 2006, the Global Mappings
political atlas web site will be closed.
Thank you for your participation in
the 2001-2006 pilot project.
Welcome
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Angela Davis speaks at a rally in
Raleigh, North Carolina, 1974.
Bettman/Corbis, used with permission.
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This interactive website is
the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year partnership between faculty,
graduate students and technical staff at Northwestern University
to create a virtual archive housing scholarly entries that demonstrate
the linkages between transnational black politics, social movements
and world historical events of the twentieth century.
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Chief Lapido Solanke, founder of the West African Students
Union
Image from Olu Ogunbiyi/Lawrence
& Wishart, used with permission.
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Initiated in 1998 with funds from the Ford Foundation,
it is the first undertaking of the Institute of Diasporic Studies
at Northwestern University.
The Institute is the result of collaboration between
Northwestern's Program
of African Studies and the African-American
Studies Department to generate, promote and support research
on the African diaspora
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