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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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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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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil

May 14, 2020May 11, 2020 Tianna Bruno Black Ecologies, Brazil, environment, geography, Historical Memory, South America

The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship

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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell carceral state, Chicago, COVID-19, geography, slavery

As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling

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