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Introduction to the Special Issue on Women in Pennsylvania Politics
Get PDFThe Editor’s Note provides an introduction to the topic of women and Pennsylvania politics. It also provides an overview of the articles in issue 21:1
Solving Pennsylvania’s Budget Woes: Increased Female Representation
Get PDFPennsylvania has a long history of failing to pass its budget by the start of the next fiscal year, often plunging the state in prolonged periods of budget impasse, and subjecting the state to a myriad of social, economic, and political consequences. This article explores the history of budget impasses in the Commonwealth, including their causes and consequences, and advances a growing trend in American politics as a potential solution to this problem—the election of more women to the General Assembly. I suggest that the addition of more female lawmakers will make the budgetary process more collegial as these political actors are prone to reach across the aisle and compromise due to patterns of socially reinforced behavioral expectations, thus bringing budgetary stalemates to a quicker resolution. The consequences of prolonged impasses on the target populations of importance to female lawmakers are explored as an impetus for engaging in this behavior
“We’re A’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns”: Frederick Douglass and the People of Scotland
No full textThis article is about the search for Frederick Douglass across Scotland and how this local history sheds a different light on Douglass and his time in the country. A decentered approach to Douglass is crucial because the speeches he gave across Scotland radically altered depending on his audience. From soirées in Edinburgh and Glasgow to packed meetings in areas of working-class activism, examining the locations Douglass visited in Scotland shapes how we view him
The Fugitivity of Art: Akinsanya Kambon’s Pan-African Art and Activism
No full textThis article examines the art practices of Akinsanya Kambon, Pan-African artist, activist, and former Black Panther. Fujino posits that Kambon’s art and activism embody a marronage politic through the creation of alternative spaces that reject the logics of racial capitalism and white assimilationism. Whether as a fugitive living in clandestinity or as co-owner of a Pan-African art studio and gallery, Kambon—through his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and accompanying griot storytelling—has emphasized African creation of art, knowledge reclaimed from the ancestors, revolutionary theories and practices, and emancipatory imaginations. The Black Atlantic figures prominently in his art and ideology
"A Monument to Blackness": The Role of Murals in the Black Freedom Movement
No full textMurals have been present at pivotal moments during the Black freedom struggle, yet they remain on the margins of scholarship. Birthed during the Harlem Renaissance, cresting in the streets during Black Power, and resurrected today during #BlackLivesMatter, murals are radical, visual counterparts to the spoken politics of a movement. This article highlights the instrumental role murals played in fostering Black unity and empowerment in grassroots mobilizations since the 1920s. It introduces their complex, malleable roles as touchstones of communication, sites of ritual, visual tombstones, and talismans of a new Black consciousness, demonstrating how they became what a 1968 newspaper called “a monument to blackness.
Vestiges of Black Internationalism: The Chasseurs Volontaires de Saint-Domingue in History and Memory
No full textThe siege led by the Continental Army to reclaim Savannah from British forces in the fall of 1779 is remembered as one of the most disastrous battles of the American Revolutionary War. However, greater carnage was circumvented by a legion of (largely) free Black Chasseurs Volontaires recruited from the colony of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti). Their role proved strategically vital, and a monument erected in Savannah’s Franklin Square today pays homage to their contributions to the American project of independence. Indeed, the beguiling mythos of independence suffuses their historic legacy. Yet although their story is remembered in African American histories from the nineteenth century to the present, they are systematically occluded, marginalized, and overlooked by the colonialist archive. This article interrogates the violence of archival erasure and demands interdisciplinary, multimodal, and collaborative modes of recreating and rehabilitating lost African Atlantic histories
Our Beautiful and Beloved “Whole-Souled Friend”: In Loving Memory of Eric Lowery, President of the Frederick Douglass Honor Society, 1948–2020
No full textEric Lowery was a social justice campaigner, an equal-rights activist, and a visionary leader. In his life and life’s work, he lived as the embodiment of the ideal reformer, the beautiful individual who was dedicated to securing all social and political liberties—the inspirational individual whom Frederick Douglass always recognized and embraced as a “whole-souled friend.” As it was for Frederick Douglass, so it was for Eric Lowery: there was never any room for halfness. Across past, present, and future generations, Lowery joined Douglass in counseling us all to “work together” from all the “different sectors of life” and with our “whole souls” to see, to feel, and to understand the “need to improve our quality of life through the activities we do together.
