NOTES

Goth-ish

1 For clarity “Black” is capitalized when discussing race, people, or culture and the lowercase “black” for the color.

2 propagandamagazine-gothic.tumblr.com

3 From Carrie Hawks’ short animated film Black Enuf (1997).

4 Post-Punk.com, “Goth So White? Black Representation in the Post-Punk Scene”, 30 November 2017, post-punk.com.

5 Jones, Heather (18 May 2016) “Being Weird and Black Doesn’t Mean You’re Interested in Being White,” Wear Your Voice, wearyourvoicemag.com

6 Igadwah, Lynet (18 October 2013) “Gothic fashion taking root” Nairobi News. airobinews.nation.co.ke

7 “The Practice of Slavery at Monticello” monticello.org

8 Botting, Fred (1955) Gothic: The New Critical Idiom, London: Routledge

9 Groom, Nick (2012) The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: OUP

10 While it is extremely tempting, I’m reluctant to use the term “hauntology” when talking about the gothic, a topic which regularly refers to the hauntings of “real” ghosts not metaphoric ones.

Based on a True Story

1 Walpole also coined the term “gloomths,” which is to me a more accurate description of the gothic sensibility than goth. If only it wasn’t such an unattractive word to pronounce.

2 Yanuck, Julius (June 1953) “The Garner Fugitive Slave Case.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review.

3 Bogira, Steve (September 7, 1987) “They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror: A Murder in the Projects,” Chicago Reader.

This Spooky Thing Called Slavery

1 Radcliffe, Ann. “On the Supernatural in Poetry”The New Monthly Magazine 7, 1826.

2 Bouie, Jamelle, “Black Victims, It Always Is.” Slate Magazine, Slate.com

3 Bouie, Jamelle (26 Nov. 2014) “Michael Brown Wasn’t a Superhuman Demon to Anyone but Darren Wilson.” Slate Magazine. Slate.com

4 Fry, Gladys-Marie. Night Riders in Black History. The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair

1 Jackson, Stanley W. (1986) Melancholia and Depression, Oxford: OUP

2 Dickey, Colin (2016) Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, London: Viking

When Doves Cry

1 Davison, Carol (2017) The Gothic and Death, Oxford: OUP

2 Spivack, Caroline, “African-American Graves from 1858 Rediscovered and Restored at Green-Wood”

3 Dunlap, David W. “Evidence of Burial Ground Is Discovered in East Harlem”

4 “The Woman in the Iron Coffin,” Secrets of the Dead, PBS, 3 October 2018.

5 Laqueur, Thomas W. (2015) The Work of the Dead: a Cultural History of Mortal Remains, New York: PUP

6 Delgado, Melvin (2003) Death at an Early Age and the Urban Scene: The Case for Memorial Murals and Community Healing, Westport: Praeger Press

7 Cooper, Martha and Sciorra, Joseph (1994) RIP: Memorial Wall Art

8 Huyssen, Andreas (2000) “Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia,” Public Culture

9 Riddell, Corinne, Harper, Sam Cerdá Magdalena, Kaufman, Jay, “Comparison of Rates of Firearm and Nonfirearm Homicide and Suicide in Black and White Non-Hispanic Men, by U.S. State”, Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 May 2018.

10 The refrain is repeated with Walter Scott, Jerame Reid, Phillip White, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Freddie Gray, Aiyana Jones, Sandra Bland, Kimani Gray, John Crawford, Michael Brown, Miriam Carey, Sharonda Singleton, Emmett Till, Tommy Yancy, Jordan Baker, and Amadou Diallo.

11 Roediger, David R. “And Die in Dixie: Funerals, Death, & Heaven in the Slave Community 1700-1865,” The Massachusetts Review, Spring 1981

12 Rankine, Claudia. “The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning.” New York Times Magazine, June 22, 2015.

13 Nora, Pierre (2001) Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, New York: Columbia University Press.

Screaming it to Death

1 The entirety of Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is available online through The Library of Congress: “This recording trip is an ethnographic field collection that includes nearly seven hundred sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on 31 March 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on 14 June 1939.”

2 Neal, Larry (1972) “The Ethos of The Blues.” The Black Scholar 3, no. 10

3 Margolick, David (2001) Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, New York: Ecco Press

4 Smiley, Tavis (23 October 2017) “My Conversation with Annie Lennox,” Huffington Post. huffpost.com.

5 “History of Lynchings,” NAACP, naacp.org

6 Halperin, Moze. “The Curious History of ‘I Put a Spell on You’”

7 McCann, Ian. “I Put a Spell on You brought bliss to all who touched it — except its composer”

8 “The Life of a Song: I Put a Spell on You,” (5 February 2017) FT Life of a Song. podtail.com.

9 Thompson, Dave and Greene, Jo-Ann (November 1994) “Undead Undead Undead,” A Study of Gothic Subcultures. gothicsubculture.com

10 Wester, Maisha, Don’t Let the Drexciya Catch You in Detroit: Afrofuturisms Gothic Underground, paper presented at the International Gothic Association 2018 Conference in Manchester, UK

11 Ketchum, William (15 October 2008) “Mayor Esham? What?”, Detroit Metro Times. metrotimes.com.

The House on Boston Boulevard

1 Adams, Julia and Schönle, Andreas (2010) Ruins of Modernity, Durham: DUP

2 Rueters, (1 November 1994) ‘Hundreds of Fires Light Up Devil’s Night in Detroit,’ New York Times. https://nyti.ms/2VunG0M

3 Apel, Dora (2015) Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick.

Fear of a Black Planet

1 Ferber, Michael (2010) Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: OUP

2 Fisher, Mark (2014) Ghosts of My Life Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures, London: Verso.

3 The name Melanie is derived from the Greek “melaena,” meaning black or dark.