Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...died, something entered into me which I cannot describe, but it was then that I resolved that nothing under heaven would prevent me from getting this play done. We are...
Substantiation
...court reporter not not recording his not not remembered memory. Not not getting on the train. Not hearing anything, anything. Such quiet now. * Now hypocrisy can be exposed; myth...
Prayer of the Backhanded
...my forgetting The love of a hand Hungry for reflex, a hand that took No thought of its target Like hail from a blind sky, Involuntary, fast, but brutal In...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...doing is buying the fish. Or getting it on credit. And that only lasts for so long. And they would come, and bring the fish and bring the fish and...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...memorialized notes the collective and willful forgetting by Americans about slavery. Taking off from the installation of the first public civil rights monument at the market "honoring the struggle for...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...time. And planters knew not to provoke a contest of wills every time slaves sought to visit adjoining plantations. Slaves understood their owners' dilemma and capitalized on it, getting passes...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...variation? For me, getting together with Elvira, Arnold, Lisa, and Michael is part of a spiritual journey. I began to realize that my own language has sometimes been problematic, especially...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...on following tradition, the symbols of professional identity and ethnographic authority. From the time of Bronislaw Malinowski, the father of modern anthropological fieldwork (i.e., getting out of the armchair and...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...1985), 74. Henry Herbert Bankston, a government worker and resident of Collier Heights, remembers, "I think about our getting together like we once did and it was basically because we did...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...and the need to persevere in getting an education. Northern Ireland We were in for a dramatic change when we arrived in Belfast for the July 12 Orange Order parades...