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A Black Women’s History of the US: An Interview with Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, sexuality

Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is also the National Publications

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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.

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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

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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.

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Black Lives Matter on Campus– Universities Must Rethink Reliance on Campus Policing and Prison Labor

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Robert T. Chase & Yalile Suriel policing, prisons, Resistance, student activism

In the wake of the devastating murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, people have taken to

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