Reimagining the Past, Envisioning AfroFutures

Harris, Tiffany

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Title

Reimagining the Past, Envisioning AfroFutures

Author(s)

Harris, Tiffany

Issue Date

2022

Keyword(s)

Education Policy Studies

Abstract

"iPhone picture of myself, sister, and nephew exercising self-determined freedom at a cotton field (shortly after seeing a state patrol) upon a hike day to Providence Canyon State Park, “Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon” on January 20, 2021. Beyond a familial standpoint, we are Black U.S. southerners from Atlanta, Georgia with connections in other parts of the state, including rural areas outside of the infamous metropolitan region. Atlanta is credited as the regional epicenter deemed worthy of global recognition yet “many people from outside of the South see the region and its inhabitants as trapped in an imagined plantation past"". ​ Our nature explorations embody traditional ecological knowledge or intentionally cultivating a relationship with all living beings (including humans) with one another and their environment. American chattel slavery was rooted in agricultural production (including cotton, rice, indigo and tobacco) at the expense of Black people’s exploitation. It is important note the U.S. South’s economy vastly profited from slave labor with cotton as the primary cash crop, evoking the concept “Cotton is King” or “King Cotton”. We transverse physical landscapes to reimagine the Black US South’s role in cotton production during the antebellum period, thus, disrupting linear & monolithic narratives nationally and globally.​"

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Language

eng

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