ABSTRACT

The essay discusses the autobiographies of two Black writers, James Weldon Johnson and Evelio Grillo, both of whom grew up in Florida. While Johnson experienced his hometown Jacksonville in the 1870s and 1880s as a contact zone where Black American, Black Cuban, and other ethnic groups interacted on a daily basis, Grillo spent his childhood in the 1920s in a highly segregated part of Tampa. The essay explores both texts in the context of late nineteenth and early twentieth century US expansionism to the Caribbean and Latin America, drawing on the field of archipelagic studies to highlight the impact of expansionism on the racial reterritorialization of Florida and on the changing mobility regimes affecting its Black and Latin populations. The autobiographies dramatize the different strategies both authors developed to negotiate these mobility regimes and their specific situations.

摘要

这篇文章讨论了两位黑人作家詹姆斯·韦尔登·约翰逊 (James Weldon Johnson) 和埃维里奥·格里洛 (Evelio Grillo) 的自传，他们都在佛罗里达州长大。约翰逊在 1870 年代和 1880 年代将他的家乡杰克逊维尔体验为美国黑人、古巴黑人和其他种族群体每天互动的接触区，而格里洛则在 1920 年代在坦帕高度隔离的地区度过了他的童年。这篇文章探讨了 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初美国向加勒比海和拉丁美洲扩张的背景下的这两个文本，利用群岛研究领域来强调扩张主义对佛罗里达州种族再领土化的影响以及影响影响的不断变化的流动制度它的黑人和拉丁人口。