Editor’s Introduction

The current volume of Palimpsest moves between the themes of global movements—leisure, forced migrations, trafficking—and activism. At times, the two themes come together. Opening with the still-not-as-yet-well-known travel memoir by Juanita Harrison, My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, and closing with a political-theoretical rumination on the travails and rewards of Black women traveling, sandwiched between is the little-known history of the historically Black women’s college, Spelman. The student’s radical activism would lead to the eventual hiring of their first Black woman “Sister-President,” Johnnetta Betsch Cole.