Between 1938 and 1942, the South Carolina Public Service Authority sought to displace 901 black families and dig up and flood over 9,000 graves for rural redevelopment. This dissertation challenges government and capitalist conceptions of value by conceptualizing and documenting a “conjure value” among South Carolina’s African-descended people.
First Name:
Kelsey
Position:
Pre-Doctoral Fellow
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Institution:
Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation Title:
What the Dead Witnessed: Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina
