Abstract:This essay focuses on the author'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.

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我血液中的鬼魂：寻找菲尔·巴克利

摘要：这篇文章的重点是作者寻找更多关于菲尔巴克利的信息，菲尔巴克利是她的曾祖父，他在佐治亚州西南部的吉姆克劳被白人谋杀。作者使用系谱搜索作为框架，探索作为南方黑人家庭基础叙事的创伤和记忆的更大观念，黑人女性作为这些记忆和创伤的守门人的角色，以及重新找回失去并投向黑人的挑战美国南部历史的另一面。