Mitchell Esajas
2017

Documents and articles found in the Black Archives suggest that there is a longer history of black radical movements, intelectuals and organizers than. Much research has been done on black radical movements, organizers in the Anglophone world but relatively little research has been done about black radicals in the Dutch context. Based on archival research I aim to gain more insight in the position and relation between Dutch radical intellectuals and organizers and their Caribbean counterparts with a focus on Otto Huiswoud.

Mitchell Esajas (1988) is co-founder and chairman of New Urban Collective and The Black Archives in Amsterdam, a unique collection of books, documents and artefacts documenting the history of black people and black resistance in the Dutch context. He studied Business Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.