{"title":"We Are Virginians","authors":"Barbara Phillips","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899708","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"38 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47966121","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":"Gloria Naylor: Literary Geographer of the Black South","authors":"Sasha Ann Panaram","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899705","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"19 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46105683","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":"Reimagining Riddick Town: Healing, Restoration, and Honor","authors":"Quay Weston, “Aunt Lydia” Whitley","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899712","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"104 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47914181","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":"Lost in Translation: Reverted Black Panamanian Sporting Networks","authors":"Javier L. Wallace","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899707","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"24 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49494752","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":"Be Ye Transformed: The King James Bible as Black Placemaking in the Rural South","authors":"P. McCutcheon, L. Eaves","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899710","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"68 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43416330","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":"Let’s Build Our Own House: Political Art and the Making of Black and Muslim Worlds","authors":"D. Williams","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899709","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"48 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46338159","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":"“Kick, Push”: Skating for Space and Joy","authors":"Suzanne Nimoh","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899706","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"20 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41439940","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":"What Remains? Ethnographic Archives and Speculative Black Geographies","authors":"Ashanté M. Reese","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.a899711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a899711","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"82 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66484349","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":"\"Up on Cripple Creek\": Limb Loss, Difference, and Disability Spectacle in Southern Roots Music","authors":"Simon H. Buck","doi":"10.1353/scu.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the experiences and representations of several southern roots musicians with limb loss or limb differences. Through an examination of the lives of the one-armed Carolinian banjoist and busker \"Uncle\" Frank Rayborn in the 1950s and 1960s, amputee Confederate veterans who performed at early-twentieth century fiddlers' contests, the one-armed \"barn dance\" radio musician Emory Martin, and the African-American bluesman \"Peg Leg\" Howell, this essay explores wider issues of patronage, voyeurism, agency in the roots music—particularly old-time, country, and blues—in the twentieth-century US South. In the process, this essay draws attention to the juncture where disability, poverty, gender, and race meet in the South, and calls us to reconsider narratives of embodiment, difference, and spectacle not at the \"extremities\" of southern culture and history but at their cores.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"29 1","pages":"24 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49171026","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}