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The Spatial Dimensions of White Supremacy: Reinventing the Lowcountry Plantation in the Gullah/Geechee Nation
Author(s) -
Hargrove Melissa D.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/traa.12184
Subject(s) - white supremacy , white (mutation) , appeal , politics , capitalism , dialectic , narrative , race (biology) , state (computer science) , gender studies , sociology , history , political science , political economy , law , art , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , literature , epistemology , algorithm , computer science , gene
Each year, millions flock to the US Lowcountry South in search of the illusory appeal of a bygone era; one that never existed outside the white imagination. The contemporary grand narrative of long defunct plantations, standing as beacons of a once‐held hope that the South would rise again, offers a cultural commentary on the state of racial politics in the United States—connecting the social and discursive practices of white supremacy to contemporary daily operations across an entire geographic region, in ways that illustrate the structural dialectic between capitalism and race‐making.