Tolbert wades into the liminal, haunted space that exists between water and Black memory, navigating Black lineages of thinking and practice to embark on her own return to water.
Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives
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Uncovering Amazonia
“Amazonia”—the word alone can conjure up a lot of images, some accurate and some wildly not. In truth, it has many definitions, ranging from a specific drainage basin to a tropical ecological world. For most of my childhood, such kinds of tropical “jungles” were places of peril to be avoided. The very word “Amazon” conjured up Joseph Conrad’s images from Heart of Darkness ([1899] 2015), albeit that book was about the Congo in Africa.