New Web Resource Base of Original Content: First Edition Featuring "Maroons to Black Panthers"

I am developing a web resource base to feature an archive of free texts reflecting the themes of justice, participatory/democratic process, and empowerment. I will incorporate links to countless other websites who explore these themes.

The following is the first article of many which I wish to share.

Johnson, Christie (2006) Kathleen Cleaver speaks from Maroons to Black Panthers: A Discourse Analysis. (click on link to read)

It has been a longstanding interest of mine to explore methods of conflict and peace analysis, anti-poverty strategies, empowerment and participatory-community development modeling. I am developing a framework from which to explore parallels between modern freedom movements, anti-poverty movements, so called terrorist movements – and the denigration of antebellum Africans who used violent (and non-violent) means to resist enslavement in the Americas. Specifically, to develop and expand the notion of Maroonage as a metaphor for a more humanistic approach to modern conflicts: a sophisticated analysis for using the African American experience to contextualize modern freedom movements, civil rights, human rights, and global anti-poverty movements.

In this vein from 2004 to 2007 I worked on the The Maroons Documentary Film Project ©  a multi-part documentary film addressing maroonage as active and passive resistance throughout antebellum American history. 

I warmly welcome comments and feedback. 




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