{"title":"Talk One Thing: Writing Family History in an Afro-Native World","authors":"K. Field","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reflects upon the challenges of family history and genealogy in an Afro-Native context. Beginning with the author's own ancestors, it explores the urgency and specificity with which Afro-Native individuals documented their ancestry in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century, and especially in the wake of the Dawes General Allotment Act. While the allotment process forced Native Americans into US land markets, it also drew misleading distinctions between Creeks, for instance, and freedpeople of the Creek nation—distinctions that shaped notions of family and family history, and ideas about race and nation, for generations to come. Amidst federal imposition of American racial categories, Afro-Native descendants continued the painstaking work of narrating their familial pasts on their own terms. \"Writing about families,\" Amitav Ghosh notes, \"is one way of not writing about the nation.\"","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"42 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48804238","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":"Narratives of Dispossession and Anticolonial Art in Urban Spaces","authors":"Kyle T. Mays","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The narratives produced by settler capitalists and transplants in Detroit continue to suggest that it is a place of possibility for white people and notably not, using frontier rhetoric like that which was used in the 19th century when settlers moved out West. In the aftermath of the bankruptcy of 2013 and the water shutoffs, Indigenous creatives found ways to craft expressive culture that critiqued dispossession and demonstrated artistic solidarity with African Americans. This article explores the meanings and possibilities of Indigenous creative expression as a response to ongoing dispossession in contemporary Detroit. Using discourse analysis of Indigenous popular culture, this article argues that Indigenous hip-hop artists are creating anti-colonial art to resist anti-blackness and settler capitalism in the city and beyond.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"134 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45644230","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":"Removal, Labor, and Reckoning in the Black Native South","authors":"Nakia D. Parker","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay grapples with the painful, entwined legacies of chattel slavery and Indian removal in the United States through the theme of inheritance. Black and Indigenous peoples have inherited the broken promises, unfulfilled dreams, and unrealized hopes bequeathed to them by slavery, dispossession, and settler colonialism. This piece argues that in order to tackle contemporary issues of sovereignty, belonging, and anti-Blackness a reckoning with the importance of chattel slavery in Native slaveholding communities, with particular emphasis on how the institution exacerbated the trauma of dispossession and expulsion to the West in the 1830s, is necessary. The process of arriving at this reckoning may elucidate possibilities for healing and cooperation between the descendants of Black and Black Indigenous freedpeople and tribal members in the Five Nations.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"90 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66484334","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":"At the Intersection of Chickasaw Identity and Black Enslavement","authors":"Alaina E. Roberts","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A nineteenth-century Chickasaw woman, Betsy Love, fought a legal battle to ensure that her property could not be seized for her husband's debts. Her success in this endeavor has gone down in history as a lauded precursor to Mississippi's 1839 Married Women's Property Act and, subsequently, similar laws in multiple other states, all of which allowed white women to, for the first time, hold property separate from their husbands. The only problem? Betsy's \"property\" was an enslaved person named Toney, and slavery was essential to the Chickasaw Nation's economy cultural evolution—and, yet, discussions of this case have not fully reckoned with what this means for broader Chickasaw history and identity. This essay briefly explores this intersection of race, gender, and tribal identity.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"110 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43687655","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":"Several Places at Once","authors":"M. Lowery","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"Several Places at Once\" explores the meaning of \"inheritance,\" beyond its capitalist definition of things, items, and property, to include names, traits, and qualities. While the law thinks of inheritance as individualized, it can also be collective, which means descendants face obstacles created by the stereotypes, myths, and assumptions imposed on them. The pursuit of individual liberty has weakened social bonds and allowed one race to exploit others. Shared experiences provide resources that can be transmitted across generations. By exploring the possibilities of the American and African Indigenous community and identity in the past and present, these groups can enhance their inherited traits of resilience and problem-solving. An honest reckoning with their entire inheritance forces communities to confront ambiguity, uncertainty, and their attendant pressures, and is necessary to overturn the meta-narratives about Black and Indigenous disappearance, invisibility, marginality, and death.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42287239","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":"\"Necessary Contemplation\"","authors":"Lauren Adams, J. Patterson","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this interview, artists Jason Patterson and Lauren Frances Adams discuss the history of white supremacy in America and how it shapes their own experiences and artistic subject matter. Patterson is an artist whose work consists of portraiture and the recreation of historical documents. He also designs and builds ornate wood frames that house his portraits and paper artifacts. These frames aesthetically reference the design of the time periods of his subject matter. Patterson's artwork centers around Black history in the United States, but his recent work has focused on the Black history of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Adams' paintings and installations engage museum collections and commemorative landscapes to address historical memory and craft traditions. Both artists describe their process of working with archival subject matter and generating ideas in relationship to education, literature, landscape, genealogy and philosophy. They discuss recent projects about 19th and 20th century histories of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Baltimore City and Maryland's Kent County.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"115 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48639551","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":"Loves and Secrets","authors":"Jodi A. Byrd","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay looks at Chickasaw anti-Blackness within experiences of settler colonialism, removal, and slavery in the South as well as Chickasaw refusals to address the complicities of slave-owning in the nation. Drawing on the author's own family history to think through the possibilities and failures to link Indigeneity and slavery, the essay considers what is inherited and what is lost in the violences of dispossession.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"70 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44910770","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":"My Inheritance","authors":"Esther O. Ohito","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this essay, I blend genres—invoking the conventions of ekphrastic, academic, and memoir writing—to piece together stories that function as fodder for simultaneously illuminating and probing the well-established link between trauma and violence. A transgenerational mapping of tales, the essay illustrates interconnectedness among the historical, social, cultural, and familial contexts of and reasons for trauma vis-à-vis the following questions: What knowledge is owed to us, the living, by the dead? What do we owe the dead? What truths do we deserve to reclaim? What must we remember if we are to weather assaults on our (Indigenous)ways of knowing and being? What knowledge of ourselves do we have a right to (re)write in our own voices?","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":"28 1","pages":"14 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47228251","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}