Search Results for: slavery

From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology

June 22, 2020June 21, 2020 Hilda Lloréns & Carlos G. García-Quijano #BlackEcologies, Black Ecologies, environment, geography, Historiography, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, race

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.

Read more

An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

Read more

Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Michael Dickinson Activism, black lives matter, black protest, racist monuments

As a young student, of perhaps fifteen years old, I was the only brown face in a mostly white honors

Read more

The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Kimberly Probolus black rebellion, Resistance, Washington DC

In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors

Read more

Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

June 16, 2020June 14, 2020 Jillean McCommons #BlackEcologies, Activism, Black Ecologies, environment, geography, Historical Memory, oral history, primary source, race, racism

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.

Read more