“ … the policing of black men has been the experience of black people in this country since we got here. The plantation system was organized to police the population; immediately after the Civil War, vagrancy laws were passed in many southern states and used as a tool of controlling the men who were on the roads looking for their families who’d been sold away. The policing of the black population has been a part of social policy since we got here. Nobody made that up. It’s just been around for so long that we’re looking for other reasons.”
— Darryl Pinckney, Black America: The State of the Culture, Salmagundi 206-207 Spring – Summer 2019 See CURRENT ISSUE in the menu above
“ … the policing of black men has been the experience of black people in this country since we got here. The plantation system was organized to police the population; immediately after the Civil War, vagrancy laws were passed in many southern states and used as a tool of controlling the men who were on the roads looking for their families who’d been sold away. The policing of the black population has been a part of social policy since we got here. Nobody made that up. It’s just been around for so long that we’re looking for other reasons.”
— Darryl Pinckney, Black America: The State of the Culture, Salmagundi 206-207 Spring – Summer 2019 See CURRENT ISSUE in the menu above
Salmagundi #206-207 Out Now
“Black Intellectuals & The Condition of the Culture” Symposium, Sontag, Modigliani, Romare Bearden, Poems & Columns
Dear Reader —
For now, we have decided to make the spring-summer issue of SALMAGUNDi MAGAZINE available online only, and will print and mail out the hard copy edition from our offices at Skidmore College when the current Covid-19 crisis has passed and people have returned to their routines and places of work. This is the first time we’ve put an entire edition of the magazine online containing the FULL text of the print version that we hope to publish at some point before the end of the year. We are making this online edition available free of charge, without a pay wall, so subscribers as well as other readers have full access to it.
In the new double issue, you’ll find a variety of characteristic features, from columns on higher education and the recent British election to pieces on Susan Sontag, Modigliani and the artist Romare Bearden. But much of the nearly 300-page number is devoted to a SALMAGUNDI Symposium on “Black Intellectuals & The Condition of the Culture,” featuring Margo Jefferson, Darryl Pinckney, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Orlando Patterson and John McWhorter. There are two ways to access the new Spring-Summer 2020 issue of the magazine: 1. Visit the Current Issue page of our website by clicking that link in the menu at the top of our homepage where you’ll find all of the new issue’s pieces and features in an easy-to-read format for desktops, laptops or mobile devices. OR 2. Go to the ISSUU edition of #206-207—link below—which will allow you to read online or to download the issue as a facsimile of the print edition.
Take good care and let us know what you think of the new issue — we hope to run a full section of reader responses, especially to the symposium, in our next number.
Many thanks from the editors,
Robert Boyers, Peg Boyers, Marc Woodworth
Link to facsimile edition here:
“ … the policing of black men has been the experience of black people in this country since we got here. The plantation system was organized to police the population; immediately after the Civil War, vagrancy laws were passed in many southern states and used as a tool of controlling the men who were on the roads looking for their families who’d been sold away. The policing of the black population has been a part of social policy since we got here. Nobody made that up. It’s just been around for so long that we’re looking for other reasons.”
— Darryl Pinckney, Black America: The State of the Culture, Salmagundi 206-207 Spring – Summer 2019 See CURRENT ISSUE in the menu above
