By Kendra Hamilton, gentlewoman and scholar

Kendra Hamilton is an artist and scholar whose work troubles the waters of common understandings of rural Southern lives on both sides of the color line. In Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess (University of Georgia Press, 2024), she turns to her own roots. RTG, a searching place-based inquiry into Gullah Geechee identity and its intersecting literary Harlem (and Charleston) Renaissance histories, is witty and wise.