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- The (Neo-)Slave Narrative and the Plantationocene
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Abstract: Ta-Nehisi Coates ends his memoir Between the World and Me (2015), a meditation on America’s anti-Black racism, by connecting the white supremacy inherent to the American dream to the climate crisis. He writes: “The two phenomena are known to each other. It was the cotton that passed through our chained hands that inaugurated this age. It is the flight from us that sent them [the white Dreamers] sprawling into the subdivided woods. And the methods of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves” (151). Beginning with plantation slavery, which transformed Black bodies into the commodities of “sugar ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Carceral Aesthetics Justified
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Abstract: In a situation where the miserable reality can be changed only through radical political praxis, the concern with aesthetics demands justification.Nicole Fleetwood’s recent Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, a book accompanied by a prison art exhibition, embodies one of the most comprehensive theoretical, critical, and curatorial projects on prison art situated in contemporary art and, given the racial composition of American prisons, in critical race theory.1 Part of what also makes Fleetwood’s book distinctive among all the recent and past work on mass incarceration is her engagement with carceral aesthetics.2 The term “carceral aesthetics” refers not only “to ways of envisioning and crafting art ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Baseball and Beloved Community in the Memoirs and Poetry of E. Ethelbert
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Abstract: A prolific poet, author of two memoirs, former director of Howard University’s African American Studies Resource Center, host of the WPFW radio show On the Margin, former editor of Poet Lore magazine, and a self-styled literary activist, E. Ethelbert Miller is a national treasure. Miller is also one of the foremost literary chroniclers of baseball, but his striking invocations of the sport have yet to receive the scholarly attention they warrant—a critical gap this essay begins to fill.1 In her Introduction to The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller (2016), Kirsten Porter identifies “jazz, sports (especially baseball), visual arts, and relationships” as Miller’s recurring subjects and suggests that his “words ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- “Some Damn Body”: Black Feminist Embodiment in the Spirit
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Abstract: In May 1976, while sitting in her living room with two of her daughters, Lucille Clifton thought to herself, “Why not get out the Ouija board'” Or rather, “something told” her to get out the Ouija board (“Curiosities” 10). What began as a casual evening with her daughters in which the Ouija board told one of them she would marry John Travolta quickly turned into an announcement that unsettled all who were present: that Clifton’s mother, who had been dead for eighteen years, was speaking to them.1 Clifton’s mother Thelma died when Clifton was aged twenty-two; Clifton had already resigned herself to the reality of Thelma’s untimely passing, remarking that “It is the tradition of my race, my sex, and my family to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Leroy’s Blues
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Abstract: They don’t build ships like those anymore. These days, cargo vessels are floating bricks, huge container craft a couple of blocks long. But in 1969, freighters that could haul maybe 7,000 tons steamed upriver to Newport, a supply terminal a few klicks outside of Saigon. I worked there as a stevedore in the Army during the Vietnam War. Can’t say for sure how this college guy ended up on the docks unloading four-holded freighters in the blistering sun. Bad luck, I guess. More likely, it was my bad attitude.I lived on Long Binh Army Base in a corrugated metal hooch with twenty other G.I.s, part of a company of nearly three hundred truck drivers and stevedores. I’d been assigned to the office, to prepare Morning ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Barry Jenkins, Meet D. W. Griffith, and: Portrait of a Lynched Boy
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PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative
Testimony, 1840–1865 by William L. Andrews (review)-
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Abstract: Few scholars have done as much as William Andrews to demand that we bring both thought and care to the wide-ranging texts by African American authors that we describe as slave narratives. While reaching beyond slave narratives, his To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865 (1986) continues to be required reading for any serious student of the genre, and the “North American Slave Narratives” portion of the larger Documenting the American South project he led remains a landmark in digital efforts to remember individual Black lives. Given these and diverse other contributions, it is no surprise that Andrews’s latest book, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the
Nineteenth Century by Aston Gonzalez (review)-
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Abstract: In Visualizing Equality, Aston Gonzalez sets out to address a specific oversight of previous scholarship: “Though many scholars have written about black subjects in early photography, few have written about black image-makers in the nineteenth century” (5). To rectify this, Gonzalez examines the lives and activism of African American artists working in a variety of visual media. Moving chronologically through the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, Visualizing Equality highlights the ways that African Americans crafted visual arguments to advance African American rights. Gonzalez skillfully demonstrates how these artists subverted the stereotypical depictions of blackness that emanated from the press ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the
Black Press by Kim Gallon (review)-
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Abstract: During the late 1920s and early 1930s, a period characterized by loosening sexual mores, one could find images of markedly attractive Black women in bathing suits (“bathing beauties,” as they were called) throughout the pages of Black American newspapers—the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and New York Amsterdam News, among others. These images were part of the Black press’s coverage of beauty pageants and were representative of what the press imagined readers wanted to see. In Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press, Kim Gallon draws on an archive of Black newspaper content published between the World Wars to situate the Black press as a public sphere of sexuality ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- The Short Stories of Frank Yerby ed. by Veronica T. Watson, and:
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays ed. by Matthew Teutsch (review)
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Abstract: A Black man has been shot in the stomach during a mob melee. As an ambulance rushes him to the hospital, he muses out loud about the circumstances of the violence. He is a veteran of an all-Black regiment that fought in World War I. While serving in France, he befriended his lieutenant, a Black man named Bob Jones. Both endured terrible carnage, and both earned the Croix de Guerre for their heroism. Yet, with all their sacrifices, neither could escape the reality of racial animus back home. One night in Paris, the friends went out on the town and Bob picked up a white woman. When the Black men were espied by an all-white regiment from Georgia, they were viciously attacked by their countrymen. Bob ended up dead, and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature by
Lindsay V. Reckson (review)-
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Abstract: In Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature, Lindsay V. Reckson uses the current scholarship on secularism to examine, as she notes, a period that this theory has ignored: post-Reconstruction America and the emergence of Jim Crow. Reckson argues that this era, with its consolidation of notions of race and its creation of racial segregation, is “central to . . . a regulatory regime of secularism” (5). African American uneasiness with the secular regime, held in place by a predominately Protestant Christian majority culture, is performed in racial, ethnic, artistic, and religious forms. Ecstatic performance of racialized persons, therefore, is multiply located—behind, before, and beside ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
- Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and
Intellectuals, 1893–1930 ed. by Richard A. Courage and Christopher
Robert Reed (review)-
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Abstract: Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893–1930 is a remarkable book for many reasons. Who knew that Frederick Douglass was stranded atop the Ferris Wheel at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 for six hours' Or that there was a “Manasseh Society” composed of Black men married to white women in Chicago at the turn of the century' Or that Fenton Johnson published a magazine with the support of his Uncle John “Mushmouth” Johnson, who had made a fortune in gambling' Such details breathe life into the picture of Chicago as a surprising, heterogeneous, bustling, and magnetic metropolis where African Americans had begun to powerfully assert themselves in a whole ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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