Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pinckney, Darryl

Titel

We Must Act Out Our Freedom

Ist Teil von

• The New York Review of Books, 2020, Vol.67 (13), p.58

Ort / Verlag

New York: N Y REV, Incorporated

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Pinckney reflects on black life. Juneteenth isn't mentioned in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois or Carter Woodson, the founder of The Journal of Negro History. He'd not heard of Juneteenth until Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel was published posthumously in 1999. Ellison opposed the notion of black life as a "metaphysical condition" of "irremediable agony" because that made it seem as though it either took place in a vacuum or had only one theme. In her autobiography, A Matter of Black and White (1996), Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher recalls that in her family the story was that the mob came back for Henry Argo only after the sheriff had assured the armed black men guarding the jailhouse that he was no longer in danger. Whether the story of black anger was legend or not, Sipuel notes that Argo's murder was the last recorded lynching in the state.