{"title":"Sojourn","authors":"Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Michelle Lanier, Johnica Rivers","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a934710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a934710","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Sojourn <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Alexis Pauline Gumbs (bio), Michelle Lanier (bio), and Johnica Rivers (bio) </li> </ul> <br/> Click for larger view<br/> View full resolution <p><em>Luminous and Suspicious Person #1</em>, by S. Erin Batiste, 2022. Mixed media collage, 9 × 10 in. All images from the <em>Major Arcana</em> series, which transforms early twentieth-century mugshots of Black women and girls (likely the only photographs from their lifetime), from the New Orleans Public Library archive.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>[End Page 2]</strong></p> <p><strong>SOMETIMES YOU CAN</strong> prepare for a sojourn. Plan your route. Gather resources. Train your breathing. Maybe you will visualize your success. Chant the names you will need to remember. Pray for strength. Some of us write a list of days. Notify our loved ones. Give away our excess. But what you cannot know at the beginning of a sojourn is who you will be on the other side. This is what we want for you.</p> <p>We do not know how Harriet Jacobs—or for that matter Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, or any other freedom-seeking formerly enslaved woman—chanted our names, planned for our daring recklessness, gathered seeds we would one day plant. We do not know specifically what Harriet Jacobs saw during her fevered dreams as she almost died in the garret above her grandmother's rat-invaded storeroom. What Tubman saw in her dreams the night before she woke up and said, \"My people are free.\" What Truth saw when she blinked and knew her name. But we do know that they committed to move from one state of being to another, even when that movement came through profound stillness. And we do know that their movement had an impact on us. The place we find <strong>[End Page 3]</strong></p> <br/> Click for larger view<br/> View full resolution <p><em>Luminous and Suspicious Person #4</em> by S. Erin Batiste, 2024. Mixed media collage, 9 × 10 in.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>[End Page 4]</strong> ourselves now. The place we lose ourselves constantly. This is where we meet you. In a multigenerational field of faith. A brave unknowing.</p> <p>And so, we hope that as you witness the gathered offerings, conversations, analytical texts, creative writing, and visual artistry here you will tarry and forget yourself. Find yourself in another possibility.</p> <p>When you sojourn \"In the Swamp\" with kai lumumba barrow and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, will you remember that Harriet Jacobs slept among the water moccasins, hiding in a swampland, while her kin prepared a hiding place in the crevices of the home of (self-freed) Molly? Will you move toward what abolition requires without having to know what exactly you will personally lose?</p> <p>When you follow Beatrice J. Adams into \"Habitual Return,\" will you hold the possibility that each time participants in the Great Migration returned, they returned to a diffe","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking Up Space","authors":"Regina N. Bradley","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a934719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a934719","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Taking Up Space <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Regina N. Bradley </li> </ul> <br/> Click for larger view<br/> View full resolution <p><em>Untitled</em>, by Minnie Evans, 1960. Colored pencil on paper, 11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in. North Carolina Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. McCollough and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. P. Phifer Bequest, 87.2).</p> <p></p> <p><strong>[End Page 112]</strong></p> <p><strong>I'<small>m in edenton, north carolina</small></strong>. I'm here to do some sacred work. I slowly turn the bowl of white rose petals in my hands. They are moist from freshly fallen tears after hearing Lois Deloatch sing \"It Is Well with My Soul.\" That was my Nana's favorite song, and it still broke me to hear it. It was approaching the two-year anniversary of Nana's death and her entering the ancestral realm. I turn the bowl again and look out at the water next to Molly Horniblow's resting place. Horniblow hid her granddaughter Harriet Jacobs in her attic for nearly seven years to protect her from the oppressions of slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs was a freedom fighter, writer, and businesswoman and the author of the exceptional and heart-wrenching autobiography <em>Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</em> (1861). There's something special about a grandmother's love and protection. Hot tears fell as our grandmothers' loves overlapped.</p> <p>It is well with their souls, and mine is working on it. I throw petals into the water. Prayers, blessings, tears. Prayers, blessings, release. A hand gently supports my lower back. I breathe out and let go of the rest of my flower petals. A duck swims by, head high, slowing down enough to watch our ritual of love and attention to the ancestors and grandmothers. She wades through the flowers like they belong to her.</p> <p>Asé.</p> <h2>_______</h2> <p><strong><small>later that day</small></strong>, I stood in front of a True Value hardware store. The two-story brick building sported a sign and an unremarkable concrete parking lot with an equally unremarkable wooden fence. Or so I thought.</p> <p>The site was where Molly Horniblow's house once stood. \"Had the least suspicion rested on my grandmother's house, it would have burned to the ground,\" Jacobs wrote. \"But it was the last place they thought of. Yet there was no place where slavery existed that could have afforded me <strong>[End Page 113]</strong> so good a place of concealment.\" I just couldn't imagine how Jacobs endured such a daunting space. The stifling lack of movement of her body and the air, the vermin that crawled on and around her, and the rigidity of the wooden garret that refused to bow to the world rotating around it had to be a Herculean task. Her concealment was life and death. Her grandmother's and her family's love also hid her and sustained her through the ordeal.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>Now, there was n","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Down South","authors":"Jet Toomer","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a934718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a934718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This personal essay uses narration to explore a northern descendant's direct connection to the legacy of the Great Migration though the lenses of her southern family's homelands, traditions, and family lineages. Memory and storytelling are the tools the author uses to weave through time and place, from her and her parents' youths through adulthoods, in both the North and South, to lay claim upon a heritage that has been erased, obfuscated, and undervalued chiefly because of systemic discrimination and secondarily because of intergenerational silences tied to racialized violence, poverty, and grief. With the intent to expand beyond the limitations of biased and incomplete accounts of Black histories, the prose therein culls through the author's memories and tethers them to those of her ancestors aiming to reconcile the dissonance between her northern upbringing and her southern roots.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rhetoric and the Reality of the New Southern Strategy: Courtland Cox, Nsé Ufot, and Charles V. Taylor Jr. in Conversation","authors":"Emilye Crosby","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article is an edited intergenerational conversation among Courtland Cox, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; Nsé Ufot, former executive director of the New Georgia Project; and Charles V. Taylor Jr., executive director of the Mississippi State NAACP, on April 7, 2023. This discussion explores key issues in today's national politics, especially the role of southern Black and Brown voters and strategists, and calls for the emergence of a New Southern Strategy. Cox drew on his work with SNCC in Lowndes County, Alabama, in the 1960s, which focused on voter registration and the development of the Lowndes County Freedom Party, while Ufot discussed her work leading the New Georgia Project as they transformed Georgia's electorate, and Taylor highlighted his work on the 2015 Better Schools, Better Jobs Ballot Initiative 42 in Mississippi.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140116998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Real Evidence of Community: Poll Worker Portraits in the North Carolina Piedmont","authors":"Kate Medley","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Georgia poll workers came under fire for alleged election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, but the accusations stood in stark contrast to the author's own experiences as a poll worker in North Carolina during the same election. The author, a photographer, visited a few precincts in central North Carolina to ask volunteers why they became poll workers and to discuss their duty to ensure all voters who showed up were able to cast a ballot and have it counted. Some poll workers talked about voting rights; many described their own voting history and the changes they've witnessed. Others talked about misinformation and the news media. All mentioned integrity, asking themselves: As a citizen and as a poll worker, what can I do to help ensure that each person in my community has the opportunity to vote on Election Day and have that vote counted?</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Voting Rights Act beyond the Headlines","authors":"Emilye Crosby, Judy Richardson","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article introduces readers to the ongoing African American struggle for full voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. It explains some of the significant ways white supremacists (mis)used the legal and political system, along with violence and economic terrorism, to suppress the Black vote. The essay gives particular attention to the collective work of African Americans to secure voting rights during the modern Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on the organizing work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), mentored by Ella Baker. While many people give well-known leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson credit for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, SNCC workers immersed themselves in communities for bottom-up organizing to demand the vote and make it impossible for the country to continue to ignore the violent suppression of Black rights. The article concludes with contemporary voting rights challenges.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Blocks for Freedom\": Sewing for Voting in Post-Jim Crow Mississippi","authors":"William Sturkey","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article examines a voting rights campaign known as \"Blocks for Freedom\" that was launched in 1966 to help a group of rural African American women in Clay County, Mississippi, protect their right to vote. These Black women faced significant obstacles to vote even after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Local white vigilantes and county administrators used violence and the threat of informal economic sanctions to punish Black citizens who registered to vote. \"Blocks for Freedom\" sought to circumvent these limitations by creating jobs for Black women that would offer a living wage and protect their ability to cast ballots. Led by poor women in Mississippi and civil rights advocates in New York City, this innovative campaign shows how grassroots activists encountered voter suppression techniques employed to dilute the Black vote after the Civil Rights Movement.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"These Are Revolutionary Times","authors":"Marcie Cohen Ferris","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922026","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> These <em>Are</em> Revolutionary Times <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Marcie Cohen Ferris </li> </ul> <br/> Click for larger view<br/> View full resolution <p>\"We who believe in freedom cannot rest (Ella Baker),\" by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Letterpress, Kennedy Prints! 2012. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>[End Page 128]</strong></p> <p><strong><small>as we move through</small></strong> these fraught days in America, watching with horror the incomprehensible destruction and death in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, I ponder if we are living in <em>more</em> historic, troubling times than generations before us. Certainly not, but the constant bombardment of images and breaking news on social media certainly make it feel that way in the face of rising global nationalism and far-right terrorism; a broken, illegitimate Supreme Court; the reemergence of colonizing \"projects\"; flooding, fires, and the hottest year on record; the attack on women's reproductive rights; the constant assault on Black voting rights, so powerfully explored in this issue; and soaring acts of Jewish hate.</p> <p>In December 2023, I watched brilliant Jewish Studies scholar Pamela Nadell, cochair of my doctoral committee, testify before a congressional committee about the history of antisemitism in America and at its universities. In that same hearing, which functioned more as a kangaroo court, the women presidents of Harvard, UPenn, and <small>mit</small> were interrogated and called to \"atone\" for what Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) described as the \"intellectual and moral rot\" at universities. <strong>[End Page 129]</strong></p> <p>Foxx and her colleagues used antisemitism and free speech in a circular attack on America's elite educational institutions as she called out the \"race-based ideology of the radical left.\" <em>New York Times</em> journalist Naomi Klein describes this \"doppelgänger politics\" of the right who use antisemitism as a \"weapon to wage war on the left.\" Within a month of the hearing, the first Black female president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, and UPenn's president, Elizabeth Magill, resigned from their positions.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>These <em>are</em> revolutionary times. As Emilye Crosby and Judy Richardson note in their essay on the history of the Voting Rights Act, \"We are in the midst of a tremendous battle. Will our democracy hold? Will we be able to obtain voting rights for all?\" Benjamin Barber positions the continued Republican attack on southern voting rights—the cuts to early voting, strict photo ID requirements, restrictions on absentee voting, and more—within a campaign to demolish democracy, including the systemic undermining of the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet, he reminds us that years of local organizing and efforts to counter voter suppression have steadily increased the number of people","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voting Rights in Georgia: A Short History","authors":"Orville Vernon Burton, Peter Eisenstadt","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a922023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a922023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article is a brief history of the struggle for Black voting rights and against determined opposition in Georgia since the end of the Civil War. After a brief period during Reconstruction when there was significant Black voting and Black representation in the Georgia legislature, Black people were systematically denied both voting rights and representation in the state of Georgia. After 1944, when the US Supreme Court ruled against the all-white primary, and especially after 1965, with the passage of the Voting Rights Act, white Georgia politicians tried any number of strategies to limit minority voting strength, from efforts to limit Black registration, to manipulating election districts and voting rules to keep African Americans from winning elective office. These efforts continued, and in many ways increased after the Supreme Court in 2013 ended the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Nonetheless, the increasing demographic power of metro Atlanta, with its large minority population, was a key in 2020 to the narrow victory of Joseph Biden in the presidential race in Georgia, and the election of two liberal Democratic US Senators, including the first African American and Jew elected in the state's history.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140117329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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