marginalia no. 21
"Always read the footnotes first." An Elsa Barkley Brownism
Think someone won’t read your footnotes? I’m your huckleberry.
Text:
Rashauna Johnson, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Header Image:
Photograph of unidentified woman related to the Armant/Flint family of New Orleans, c. 1900s, Prosper L. Flint collection, Amistad Research Center
As a reader, you can always find me in the footnotes.
Also, checked out this book and it had me at "a portrait of the world in a family, a family in a region, and a region in the world that insists on the bristling and complicated relationships of people to place..."
Getting a copy now 🙏
I read the notes! And still want more books to have footnotes instead of endnotes!