Harriet Tubman, Romantic: What Tubman Teaches Us About Anti-Racist Pedagogies Through Her Niagara Falls Stories

Abstract This article discusses Barnes’s pedagogical and critical work in the spirit of this special issue exploring how Blackness was “constructed and problematized by a hegemonic global structure across national boundaries during the long nineteenth century.” That process unfolded in stages: first, to create and to center feminist genealogies of the romantic and the sublime in several upper-division literature seminars; and then to revise them with anti-racist pedagogies. The case sequence discussed centers Harriet Tubman within a constellation of Romantic luminaries.