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Author Clarke, Christa, author.

Title The activist collector : Lida Clanton Broner's 1938 journey from Newark to South Africa / Christa Clarke.

Publication Info. Newark, New Jersey : Newark Museum of Art ; New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue : "Desire and determination" -- A transatlantic friendship -- From personal pilgrimage to political purpose -- "Welcome to Africa!" -- Onward and inward to the Transvaal and Natal -- Return to the eastern Cape and voyage home -- Activist exhibitions -- The Newark Museum and beyond -- Epilogue: Mother of the Oceans.
Summary "After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers." So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895-1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1939. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner's sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americans with those of black South Africans under the segregationist policies of the time. During her travels, this woman of modest means circulated among South Africa's black intellectual elite, including many leaders of South Africa's freedom struggle. Her lectures at black schools on "race consciousness and race pride" had a decidedly political bent, even as she was presented as an "American beauty specialist." How did Broner--a working class mother--come to be a globally connected activist? What were her experiences as an African American woman in segregated South Africa and how did she further her work after her return? Broner's remarkable story is the subject of this book, which draws upon a deep visual and document-ary record now held in the collection of the Newark Museum. This extraordinary archive includes more than 150 objects, ranging from beadwork and pottery to mission school crafts, acquired by Broner in South Africa, along with her diary, correspondence, scrapbooks, and hundreds of photographs with handwritten notations.
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Subject Broner, Lida Clanton, 1895-1982 -- Art collections.
Newark Museum.
Newark Museum
Art, African -- Collectors and collecting -- United States.
Handicraft -- Collectors and collecting -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Handicraft -- Collectors and collecting -- South Africa.
African Americans -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
Women -- New Jersey -- Newark -- Biography.
Newark (N.J.) -- Biography.
African Americans
Art, African -- Collectors and collecting
Art -- Private collections
Women
New Jersey -- Newark https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCGXkCTKTf8rVFgxXjmd
South Africa https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcWtkkqd3cMmFw9GBdYT3
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Biographies
Added Author Harrison, Linda C., writer of foreword.
Walter de Gruyter & Co. Rutgers University Press Complete 2023.
Other Form: Print version: Clarke, Christa. Activist Collector. Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2023 9781978836174
Print version: 9781978836150 1978836155
ISBN 9781978836174 (electronic book)
1978836171 (electronic book)
9781978836150
1978836155