Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South by McInnis, Jarvis C.
Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South by McInnis, Jarvis C.

Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South

Built on the grounds of a former cotton plantation, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington,...
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Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South by McInnis, Jarvis C.

Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South

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Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South by McInnis, Jarvis C.

Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South

$102.16
Author: Jarvis C. McInnis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Built on the grounds of a former cotton plantation, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, offered agricultural and industrial education as a strategy for Black self-determination. There--and in many other communities in the U.S. South, the Caribbean, and Central America--Black people repurposed and regenerated what had been a place of enslavement into a site for imagining alternative futures.

Jarvis C. McInnis charts a new account of Black modernity by centering Tuskegee's vision of agrarian worldmaking. He traces the diasporic ties and networks of exchange that linked Black communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although Washington is often regarded as an accommodationist, McInnis shows how artists, intellectuals, and political leaders--including George Washington Carver, Jean Price-Mars, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Marcus Garvey--adapted Tuskegee's methods into dynamic strategies for liberation in places like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Jamaica. Even as the legacy of the plantation continued to circumscribe Black life, these thinkers found resources in its ruins to forge new theories and practices of progress, aesthetic innovation, and freedom that contributed to the New Negro Movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

In contrast to traditional understandings of Black modernity as urban and premised on northward migration, McInnis foregrounds rural settings and practices of place making, rootedness, and liberatory agriculture. Shedding new light on the transnational influence of a historically Black institution in the U.S. South, Afterlives of the Plantation remaps Black cultural, intellectual, and political histories down to the very soil.

Author: Jarvis C. McInnis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780231215756

About the Author
Jarvis C. McInnis is the Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.
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