American Elegy

A Triptych

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2428451
AutoresK A Mariner (0000-0002-6413-6383, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume32
Fascículo1
Páginas5-23
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-7816269
OpenAlexW3003025151
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas16

On March 26, 2018, Jennifer Hart drove her SUV off a cliff along the northern coast of California with her partner and at least five of their transracially adopted Black children inside. Their remains were recovered at the crash site. As of this writing, a sixth child, Devonte, remains missing and is presumed dead. Four years before the crash, Devonte was famously photographed at the age of twelve, tearfully hugging a white police officer at a Ferguson rally in Portland, Oregon. By simultaneously occupying the feel-good spectacle of interracial intimacy and the everyday tragedy of interracial violence, Devonte embodies and embodied the conditions of contemporary Black life and death in the United States. His disappearance is intimately linked to other forms and histories of American state violence. Through cultural analysis, autoethnography, and poetic intervention, this essay performs wake work as a method for living with the unmournable

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