Refuge, Possibility, and Black Place: On Ayana Mathis’s “The Unsettled”
J. T. Roane considers Ayana Mathis’s “The Unsettled.”
J. T. Roane is the author of Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (2023), producer for the experimental short film Plot, and a board member of a food justice organization, Just Harvest—Tidewater. He is an assistant professor of Africana studies and geography and Andrew Mellon Chair in the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University.
J. T. Roane considers Ayana Mathis’s “The Unsettled.”