Learning from Dar es Salaam: Harvard’s “Project Tanganyika” and a Nodal Perspective on Decolonization’s Itineraries

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL ISSUES
Andrew Ivaska
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Abstract:This article traces the history of Harvard’s “Project Tanganyika” and its encounter with Dar es Salaam’s burgeoning community of Southern African political exiles. An unsung predecessor to Kennedy’s Peace Corps, Project Tanganyika began in 1961 amidst a Harvard campus reckoning with issues of race, civil rights and global decolonization. Sending groups of mostly white undergraduates to Dar es Salaam as volunteer teachers, the Project would become uncannily central to the city’s emerging fame as a haven for leftwing exiles and fellow-travelers. For many Project volunteers and liberation movement leaders, the initiative was mutually generative, even as it resonated in more ambivalent ways for rank-and-file cadres. In both its generative capacity and its limitations, Project Tanganyika’s trajectory provides a glimpse of the junction of African decolonization and US civil rights in a manner inflected by race, class, and mobility.
学习达累斯萨拉姆:哈佛大学的“坦噶尼喀计划”与非殖民化路线的节点视角
摘要:本文追溯了哈佛大学“坦噶尼喀项目”的历史,以及它与达累斯萨拉姆迅速发展的南部非洲政治流亡者群体的相遇。作为肯尼迪和平队的默默无闻的前身,坦噶尼喀计划于1961年在哈佛大学校园内开始,当时正在考虑种族、民权和全球非殖民化问题。该项目将主要由白人大学生组成的团体派往达累斯萨拉姆担任志愿教师,它将不可思议地成为这座城市作为左翼流亡者和同路人避风港的名声的核心。对于许多项目志愿者和解放运动领导人来说,这项倡议是相互促进的,尽管它在普通干部中产生了更矛盾的共鸣。在其产生能力和局限性方面,坦噶尼喀计划的轨迹以一种受种族、阶级和流动性影响的方式,为非洲非殖民化和美国民权的结合提供了一瞥。
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