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Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging

Eve Eure

American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557553

Published: 01 December 2024

... studies Afro-Indigenous studies African American studies In 1887, William Shoe Boots appeared before the Cherokee Citizenship Commission (CCC) and narrated a genealogy of Black Cherokee belonging that exceeded legal and national definitions. The CCC assessed citizenship claims through the terms...

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Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America

Sunny Xiang

American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 773–776.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11611127

Published: 01 December 2024

... against the Afro-pessimist insistence that Blackness is sui generis, incomparable at some base level with other oppressions. My main concern is what incomparability means for solidarity ” ( Journal of Asian American Studies 25, no. 2: 261–82; 267, emphasis mine). Juliana Hu Pegues’s Space-Time...

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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans

Liz Polcha

American Literature 11792395.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792395

Published: 07 March 2025

... Orleans. In Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community, edited by Rain Prud homme-Cranford, Darr yl Barthé, and Andrew J. Jolivétte, 86 92. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. Dawdy, Shannon Lee. 2003. Enlightenment from the Ground: Le Page Du Pratz s Histoire de La Louisiane. French...

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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Mary Caton Lingold

American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 185–187.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788765

Published: 01 March 2017

... African and Indigenous American spheres. She eschews a reductive romanticization of Afro-Indian alliance and instead elucidates the memoir of James Beckwourth, a Western frontiersman whose writing about the Crow nation is an example of black countercartographies failing to support Native contestation...

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The Sentimentalist Terrain of Ora V. Eddleman Reed’s Twin Territories Fiction

Kathryn Walkiewicz

American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 547–577.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557513

Published: 01 December 2024

....” Rarely did affluent Native people of white descent get rejected by the Dawes Commission. Far more common was the rejection of Afro-Native people, Freedpeople, and Freedpeoples’ descendants. 14 While there are necessary conversations about how citizenship policies excluded Cherokees of African descent...

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Measuring the Harlem Renaissance: The U.S. Census, African American Identity, and Literary Form On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America

Lori Merish

American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003624

Published: 01 June 2021

... by census data, which did not separate out Afro-diaspora immigrants from native-born blacks until 1930. Chapter 4 demonstrates that Harlem’s robust internationalization, in tension with the rise of a singular “New Negro” identity, was rendered invisible by the emerging framework of a Great Migration from...

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Brief Mention

American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 663–670.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-039

Published: 01 September 2010

... of complications. While biographi- cal, the text ultimately focuses on Faulkner’s novels. 666 American Literature Shaping Words to Fit the Soul: The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism. By Jürgen E. Grandt. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 192 pp. $41.95. Continuing the project he began...

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A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South

Jarvis C. McInnis

American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722116

Published: 01 September 2019

... sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and migrant laborers during the interwar years. 2 Specifically, the issue provides evidence of the paper’s circulation to an Afro-Caribbean migrant laborer in Panama and a photograph of a former DPL employee who migrated to the delta from Jamaica. This Afro-Caribbean presence...

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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”

Madeline Zehnder

American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003540

Published: 01 June 2021

... structures depend on racialized distributions of affections. In the concluding portion of this essay, I turn to the “little buckskin pouch” containing Alfred’s miniature and consider how its resemblance to Afro-Atlantic folk charms recasts the racialized binaries traditionally advanced by miniature portraits...

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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)

American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3454777

Published: 01 December 2015

...; Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled by Michael Cobb; Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker, 415–17. Kassanoff, Jennie A. “Pregnant Chad: Gender, Race, and the Ballot,” 575–602. Keith, Joseph. Review: Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity...

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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics

Susan Scott Parrish

American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 605–607.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149405

Published: 01 September 2015

... persons of African descent and intensified their physical experiences of fragmentation. Rather than merely critique that move of racialization though, Allewaert looks to oral tales and spirituophysical fetishes to argue that enslaved Afro-Americans suspended their less-than-human legal status...

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“Return of the Native”: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and the Work of Signifying Ethnography

Sonnet Retman

American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395528

Published: 01 March 2014

... , 985 – 97 ). Benston Kimberly W. 1998 . “ Listen Br’er Sterling: The Critic as Liar [A Pre(r)amble to Essays on Sterling Brown] .” In Rowell ( 1998 , 837 – 45 ). ———. 1982 . “ Sterling Brown’s After-Song: ‘When de Saints Go Ma’Ching Home’ and the Performances of Afro-American Voice...

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Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46;Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown

Marilyn Mehaffy

American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 875–877.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-875

Published: 01 December 2001

.... Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. xi, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown. By Mark A. Sanders. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 1999. xiv, 211 pp. Cloth, $45.00. Bill Mullen’s Popular Fronts and Mark Sanders’s Afro-Modernist...

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Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism

Patricia Penn Hilden

American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 888–889.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-888

Published: 01 December 2001

... pic- ture of a literature often claimed to be quintessentially American. Reginald Dyck, Capital University Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935–46. By Bill V. Mullen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. xi, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Afro...

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