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Ghosts in My Blood: Searching for Phill Barkley

Ghosts in My Blood: Searching for Phill Barkley <p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay focuses on the author&apos;s search to find out more information about Phill Barkley, her great-grandfather who was murdered by a white man in Jim Crow southwest Georgia. The author uses the genealogical search as a framework to explore larger ideas of trauma and memory as grounding narratives in southern black families, the role of black women as gatekeepers to those memories and trauma, and the challenge of reclaiming black people lost and cast to the side of history in the American South.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Ghosts in My Blood: Searching for Phill Barkley

Southern Cultures , Volume 25 (1) – Apr 16, 2019

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © Center for the Study of the American South
ISSN
1534-1488

Abstract

<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay focuses on the author&apos;s search to find out more information about Phill Barkley, her great-grandfather who was murdered by a white man in Jim Crow southwest Georgia. The author uses the genealogical search as a framework to explore larger ideas of trauma and memory as grounding narratives in southern black families, the role of black women as gatekeepers to those memories and trauma, and the challenge of reclaiming black people lost and cast to the side of history in the American South.</p>

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Apr 16, 2019

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