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Abstract: All seven essays in this issue forcefully interrogate the making of racialized and Native subjects and their resistance in different but interrelated contexts of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, carceral state, and neoliberal service economy.Amanda J. G. Napior’s beautifully written “Deliverance in Three Acts” engages in ambitious and careful critical fabulation to imagine the life of “Deliverance Jason” found in a late eighteenth-century prison register of the Berkshire County Gaol. Napior situates Deliverance in the history of prison, indigent transiency, slavery, and emancipatory religious politics and portrays how she was entrapped by the early encoding of crime but also resisted the authorities’ ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I am seeking to understand the conditions of emergence of things and beings that may not yet exist; to imagine temporalities in which saying their names—Tamara&Amber&Kand is&Elisha&Blake& . . . —occur as ways to destroy the meanings those names have been accorded by states’ grammars.Deliverance Jason is the name of one of eight people identified as female in the 1792–1815 prison log, or “true list,” of Berkshire Gaol in Lenox, Massachusetts.1The keeper at the time scrawled Deliverance’s name and details in a spindly calligraphy along with those of others being held at the jail before their criminal and civil trials. The jailer’s entry tells us that Deliverance is thirty years old with black complexion, black hair ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In an 1879 issue of the Southern Workman, the house publication of the Hampton Institute in Virginia, the editors printed a letter by the Omaha educator and organizer Susette La Flesche (1854–1903), identified only as “a teacher among the Omaha Indians.” Reporting on the experiments with Native American education at the Hampton Institute, where two of her younger siblings had enrolled, La Flesche explained that she was “coming more and more to the conclusion that the surest and almost the only way of reaching the parent is through the children. Almost the only comforts they have in their lives consist in their children. For them they are willing to lay aside their arms and take up the plow and mower, all unused as ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole’s musical comedy The Red Moon opened in the fall of 1908 to nearly universal acclaim. Johnson remains best known for his setting of his brother James Weldon Johnson’s most famous poem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Red Moon aimed to deliver on the promise of the Johnsons’ song, offering a joyful comedy of African American achievement, with Rosamond Johnson resuming his role as cultural ambassador for ambitious and upwardly mobile Black artists. Johnson and Cole, along with their musical director, the prominent ragtime composer James Reese Europe, assembled an all-Black cast for a season-long tour from Wilmington to Chicago to Montreal and back, ending with a run on Broadway at the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a 1954 photograph taken by the Jewish freelance photographer Mildred Mead, a Black woman stands in a corridor outside a communal bathroom in the “once swank” (according to Mead) White Eagle Hotel. The woman in Mead’s image stands just shy of pooled water leaking from the bathroom shared by several households. A plump cat draws attention to another small area untouched by the leak as well as to the sliver of exposed plumbing in an adjacent room. Besides the compromised plumbing, the wear of the building at 119 East Eighteenth Street shows through on the walls, door, frame, and even, perhaps, in the expression of the woman pictured. The image recalls the kitchenette building of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha: ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Near the end of Frank London Brown’s novel Trumbull Park (1959)— the only to be published during his brief life—Black residents of the Trumbull Park housing project and their supporters gather at Chicago City Hall. “We shall not be moved,” they sing, in defiant protest of the city’s refusal to end years of harassment faced by Black families living in the formerly all-white Chicago Housing Authority project. “Just like a tree that’s planted by the waaaaaaaterrrrrs . . . we shall not be moved!”1 The simple yet powerful lyric of the protestors’ song bespeaks the centrality of spatial mobility—the right to move or, in this case, to remain—in mid-twentieth-century African American (de)segregation fiction. In works like ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In August 1991, two weeks after Philadelphia’s Fairhill neighborhood was rocked by the largest federal drug bust in city history, US senator Arlen Specter held what he billed as a “town meeting” in the neighborhood. He invited television crews and politicians, including City Councilman Angel Ortiz and State Representative Ralph Acosta. Herman Wrice, the charismatic father of Philadelphia’s Black- and Latinx-led anti-drug movement, made an appearance. So did Carol Keck, a white nun who worked with Norris Square’s predominantly Puerto Rican anti-drug organization. Yet residents from Fairhill were conspicuously absent.The meeting began as a march, which wound past the looming frame of an abandoned factory before ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: “No background check required!” boasts Airus Media’s brochure featuring a picture of a smiling virtual Latina information service worker, which the company refers to as an “Advanced Virtual Assistant (AVA).” These AVAs are life-sized holographic airport workers installed as wayfinding and informational kiosks that stand poised and at the ready to provide information to travelers (fig. 1). Airus Media, formerly AirportONE, is a multimedia marketing firm based in Plant City, Florida, that specializes in developing AVAs and film projects for the airline industry.1 Currently Airus Media reports having completed airport AVA installations at San Antonio International, Destin–Fort Walton Beach, JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the heels of the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted an undoing of our sense of self and community in relation to illness and inequality. The responses to these two historic pandemics have not only laid bare preexisting racial, gender, sexual, and structural inequities but also illuminated the perennial silences and erasures that have long marked HIV/AIDS in the United States. The initial responses to the pandemic in the 1980s focused on the experiences and needs of white cis-gender gay men, whose influential mobilization was widely documented in mainstream political activism, media, public discourse, and public health interventions. Since then, mainstream HIV/AIDS research ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition.On February 16, 1965, Malcolm X gave an address at the Corn Hill Methodist Episcopal Church in Rochester, New York. In his address, Malcolm insisted to his “brothers and sisters” that they see their struggle in the United States beyond a civil rights paradigm and link it to the African revolutions being waged against imperialism. He argued that the racial oppression and economic exploitation that Blacks faced in the US were not only “an American problem but a human problem. A problem for humanity.”1 He urged the crowd to connect the specific issues they faced in their communities to the trials and tribulations of popular classes throughout the Third World. As ... Read More PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
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