No Such Thing as Stand Still
Migration and Geopolitics in African American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kendra Taira Field (Tufts University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 693-718 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jav510 |
| OpenAlex | W2391300413 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 1916 twenty-year-old Lomie Davis lost her father, Elic Davis. Born enslaved on the brink of emancipation in Mississippi, Alexander “Elic” Davis grew up watching men and women of his parents' generation move from plantation to plantation, from country to town, using their newfound freedom to search for, in Nell Painter's words, “real freedom.” As an adolescent, he witnessed the removal of federal troops from the South, the brisk evaporation of African American political and economic opportunities (including the coerced removal of approximately two thousand black legislators and officeholders), and the denial of African American personhood across the region. His early life was marked by unfathomable disillusionment. As an adult, he dreamed of Africa, participated in several emigration movements, and served as a lieutenant in Chief Alfred Charles Sam's 1913–1915 back-to-Africa movement. Elic Davis finally made it to Africa “on his own” by the time he was in his early fifties. A few years after his arrival, around 1920, he wrote to his daughter, telling her that he was sick and hoped to return to America. Lomie Davis recalled that “he wrote to me to come and help him.” Living in Texas at the height of Jim Crow, Lomie tried her best to obtain a loan to reach him. “Well I, I had sixty dollars. And I went to the bank. And I tried to get the money to go. And they told me they couldn't.” She added, “That was all I knew to do.” No one heard from Elic again. Lomie believed he passed away in West Africa shortly thereafter.1
Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |