Tuskegee and the Afterlives of the Plantation with Jarvis McInnis

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 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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