Jarvis C. McInnis is an assistant professor of African American and African Diaspora literature and culture at Duke University. He is at work on his first book manuscript, “Afterlives of the Plantation: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora in the Global Black South,” which aims to reorient the geographic contours of black transnationalism and diaspora by examining the hemispheric linkages between southern African American and Caribbean literature and culture in the early 20th century.