McInnis Afterlives of the Plantation

Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56095-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Reihe: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

Jarvis C. McInnis charts a new account of Black modernity by centering Tuskegee’s vision of agrarian worldmaking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McInnis, Jarvis C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Regenerating Black Life in Plantation Ruins
Plot I
1. An Experiment in Black World Making: Cultivating Intellectuals of the Land in the Alabama Countryside
2. Performing the Tuskegee New Negro: The Racial and Gendered Aesthetics of the Repurposed Plantation
Plot II
3. Strategic Translations: Race, Nation, and the Affordances of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee in Cuba
4. Joining Hands Across the Sea: Agricultural Education, Economic (Inter)Nationalism, and Haitian–African American Relations
Plot III
5. Becoming New Negroes: Student Aspirations, Hemispheric Migration, and the Otherwise Uses of Tuskegee
6. At the Crossroads of Diaspora and Empire: Harvesting a Plot Logic in Claude McKay’s Jamaica
7. Aestheticizing Labor, Performing Diaspora: Zora Neale Hurston and the Scene of the Work Camp
8. Of Ships and Plantations: Marcus Garvey and the UNIA’s Vision of a Pan-African Agro-industrial Empire
Epilogue: Gathering and Assessing Our Harvests; or, Lessons from Our Experiment Plots
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jarvis C. McInnis is the Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.