Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899708
Barbara Phillips
Abstract:This essay shares the story of an African American family shaped for generations by a family farm on Peak’s Knob in the Appalachia of Virginia and the meaning of the culture nurtured there by Thomas Russell, born enslaved in 1834, and his descendants. Illustrating the relevance today of Anne Strand’s observation in Sacred Altars: An Artful Journey to Enchantment, “The land is not a space one looks at with the eyes alone,” the fifth generation, who grew up in a distant city in another state, nevertheless maintains an identity as Virginians and values transmission to the next generation of not only the farm land itself, but the accompanying transmission of culture through stories and foodways. Concluding that without remembrance of family culture, all that’s left is land and a farmhouse, the essay shares the richness of Black Appalachian culture and its enduring contribution to Black identity in the twenty-first century.
摘要:本文讲述了弗吉尼亚州阿巴拉契亚山区皮克丘(Peak’s Knob)的一个家庭农场世世代代塑造了一个非洲裔美国家庭的故事，以及1834年出生的奴隶托马斯·罗素(Thomas Russell)及其后代在那里培育的文化意义。安妮·斯特兰德(Anne Strand)在《神圣祭坛:迷人的艺术之旅》(Sacred Altars: An art Journey to Enchantment)中的观察与今天的相关性表明，“土地不是一个人只用眼睛看的空间”，第五代人在另一个州的一个遥远的城市长大，尽管如此，他们仍然保持着弗吉尼亚人的身份，并将价值观传递给下一代，不仅是农场本身，还有通过故事和食物方式伴随的文化传播。文章的结论是，没有家庭文化的记忆，剩下的只有土地和农舍，文章分享了阿巴拉契亚黑人文化的丰富性及其对21世纪黑人身份认同的持久贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899705
Sasha Ann Panaram
Abstract:This essay considers the archival research that Gloria Naylor conducted for her third novel, Mama Day (1988). Drawing on interviews that Naylor conducted and various maps she consulted, Sasha Ann Panaram argues that we can treat Naylor as a literary geographer of the Black South. Part meditation on Naylor’s anti-imperialistic cartographic practices in Mama Day and part meditation on what those cartographic practices make possible within the classroom when students make their own maps to account for their lives, this essay demonstrates how Panaram offers a powerful example of how to recast the perimeters and parameters of where and what matters. Ultimately, Panaram maintains that Naylor uses her words and images to teach her readers how to envision more just worlds.
摘要:本文考察了格洛丽亚·内勒为其第三部小说《妈妈日》(1988)所做的档案研究。萨沙·安·帕纳拉姆(Sasha Ann Panaram)根据内勒进行的采访和她查阅的各种地图，认为我们可以将内勒视为黑人南方的文学地理学家。这篇文章部分是对内勒在《妈妈日》中反帝国主义制图实践的思考，部分是对那些制图实践在课堂上让学生们制作自己的地图来解释他们的生活时可能发生的事情的思考，它展示了Panaram如何提供了一个强有力的例子，说明如何重新定义地点和重要事物的边界和参数。最后，帕纳拉姆坚持认为，内勒用她的文字和图像来教她的读者如何设想更公正的世界。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899712
Quay Weston, “Aunt Lydia” Whitley
Abstract:This interview essay highlights the experience of a Black/African American family currently navigating heirs’ property challenges in Pantego, North Carolina. This intergenerational conversation between the Riddick family historian, Lydia Whitley, and family archivist, Quay Weston, details the past, present, and future of roughly forty acres of farmland that local residents call Riddick Town. As the family works together to prevent any potential threats of land loss, this intimate conversation serves as a critical reminder of the importance of preserving sacred family spaces.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899707
Javier L. Wallace
Abstract:In this essay, primarily tracing the memory of the author’s father, the author connects the ways Black Panamanians of West Indian ancestry used their athletic talents within a de jure racially segregated US Panama Canal Zone to forge opportunities with HBCU athletic programs in the US South. Black physical educators and coaches forged these connections to assist Black Panamanian youth in circumventing the discriminatory treatment within the PCZ and the Republic of Panama. Also, this essay focuses on the decline of the transnational athletic pipelines due to the reversion of parts of the PCZ and the closure of the predominately Black segregated schools. This essay argues that translating community names and institutions from English to Spanish during the reversion was part of a larger Panamanian mestizo nationalism project that was forcing a singular Spanish-speaking Panamanian ideology, which played a significant role in the pipeline’s decline.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899710
P. McCutcheon, L. Eaves
Abstract:Religion and the use of the King James Version of the Bible has been central to Black geographic practices in the rural South. In this essay, we argue that while the KJV has been used to justify domination and colonization of land and people, it has an enduring presence in the rural Black South. We argue that, in complicated ways, Black Southerners have used the KJV as a tool of liberation and transformation within their communities. We begin the essay with our experiences as Afro-Carolinians with the KJV of the Bible. We then explore the KJV of the Bible as a literary tool, due to its accessibility in homes, schools, and churches, elucidating the role of women’s work in the process. Finally, we discuss the KJV and religion within the context of Black geographies framed by Katherine McKittrick’s notion of plantation futures.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899709
D. Williams
Abstract:This essay discusses the Nation of Islam’s use of the press as an instrument to develop critiques of Black life in the United States and present viable alternatives. Political artists in the Nation of Islam, having shared the same Great Migration life paths as their leader Elijah Muhammad, were key in the organization’s reach, supporting the Nation of Islam in building a national network of distribution sites and a committed membership, which helped the organization to grow and claim membership of over two hundred thousand. By focusing on the Nation’s midcentury publication Muhammad Speaks and its use of political cartoons, this essay explores art as a means to reorient Black geographic thought and political action. Overall, this essay suggests that the Muslim-organized Black press of the 1960s and 1970s played an important role as a counterpublic institution, providing space for Black communities to share experiences and connect their local political struggles to global anticolonial liberation movements.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899706
Suzanne Nimoh
Abstract:The field of Black Geographies invites scholars to upend dominant cartographies in favor of bringing Black placemaking to the forefront of our work. Following this call, this essay explores Black play through roller skating and positions Black street skaters as creative geographers, transforming quotidian urban environments into arenas of public adventure. Using their personal experiences as a skater, the author discusses the intersections of disability and race to explore global Black skate geographies. The experiences of skaters contribute to critical geography, offering creative utilizations of public space and embodied relationships with the built environment’s infrastructure.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/scu.2023.a899711
Ashanté M. Reese
Abstract:What changes if our ethnographic research practices are reconceptualized as archival practices that can be used toward the purpose of building more equitable, sustainable futures? This essay explores this question to (re)think how we document and preserve disappearing Black geographies in our research and activism. Guided by Octavia Butler’s science fiction as a model, the essay uses speculative fieldnotes to illustrate the potential impact of treating ethnographic research as an archival practice.
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Abstract:Inspired by the work of Saidiya Hartman, Stephen Best, and others who ask us to account for the absences in the archive, this essay looks to Eudora Welty's photograph, "A village pet, Mr. John Paul's Boy/Rodney, ca. 1940," for clues to animate his life and the lives of others with intellectual disabilities who lived in Mississippi during the Great Depression. It argues that Welty employed what Tobin Siebers characterized as an "aesthetics of disability," to challenge traditional politics, upend expectations of age, race, gender, and ability, and provide insight into the "amazing worlds" of people with cognitive impairments.
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