Episode Description
Tuskegee, Alabama, the center of modernity in the Black Global South
References and suggested readings:
- Jarvis McInnis. 2025. Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Columbia. Columbia University Press.
- Zora Neale Hurston. Mules and Men.
- Zora Neale Herston. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.
- Jesmyn Ward. 2024. Let Us Descend.
- Brea Baker. 2024. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership.
- Addie E. Citchens. 2025. Dominion. FSG.
- Jason Allen-Paisant. 2025. The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams.
- Follow Jarvis McInnis on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
- Jarvis McInnis’s website
- Email: jarvis.mcinnis@duke.com
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