Afterlives of the plantation : plotting agrarian futures in the global Black South / Jarvis C. McInnis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McInnis, Jarvis C., author.

Series:

Black lives in the diaspora

Black lives in the diaspora : past / present / future

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Influence.

Washington, Booker T.

Tuskegee Institute--Influence.

Tuskegee Institute.

African Americans--Southern States--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans--Education--Southern States.

African Americans--Agriculture--Southern States.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

Plantations--Southern States.

Plantations.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States.

United States--Relations--Caribbean Area.

United States.

Caribbean Area--Relations--United States.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xv, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Plotting agrarian futures in the global Black South

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, was built on a former plantation and focused on practical, hands-on ways to develop mechanical and especially agrarian skill sets as a strategy for Black self-determination. What had once been a site of enslavement became one in which new global futures could be imagined for Blacks. While much has been written about Washington, casting him as an accommodationist, Jarvis McInnis's Afterlives of the Plantation argues that he inspired and empowered a range of men and women in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Central America, and the US South-from Haitian scholar Jean Price-Mars to Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marcus Garvey-to forge their own political and economic destinies, that helped to set the stage for the cultural innovations of the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s. McInnis shows how the agricultural and industrial education at Tuskegee and migrant labor in the hemisphere's agro-industrial enterprises such as the Panama Canal Zone and United Fruit Company plantations produced alternative networks of cosmopolitan mobility and political and intellectual exchange. The book remaps the field of Black Transnational and Diaspora Studies by elucidating how Washington's vision of agrarian futures-conceived through the establishment of a historically Black institution in the rural Jim Crow South helped to facilitate hemispheric networks between the US South, the Caribbean, and Central America that were critical to the production of Black intellectual, cultural, and political futures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Regenerating Black life in plantation ruins

An experiment in Black world making: cultivating intellectuals of the land in the Alabama countryside

Performing the Tuskegee New Negro: the aesthetics of the repurposed plantation

Strategic translations: race, nation, and the affordances of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee in Cuba

Joining hands across the sea: agricultural education, Black economic (inter)nationalism, and Haitian-African American relations

Becoming New Negroes: student aspirations, hemispheric migration, and the otherwise uses of Tuskegee

At the crossroads of diaspora and empire: harvesting a plot logic in Claude McKay's Jamaica

Aestheticizing labor, performing diaspora: Zora Neale Hurston and the scene of the work camp

Of ships and plantations: Marcus Garvey and the UNIA's vision of a Pan-African Agro-industrial empire

Gathering and assessing our harvests; or, lessons from our experiment plots.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-439) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McInnis, Jarvis C. Afterlives of the plantation

ISBN:

9780231215749

0231215746

9780231215756

0231215754

OCLC:

1472584200

Publisher Number:

CIPO000208106