The Relationship Between African Americans and Africa
Negro, African, Colored, Afro-American, African American, and Black are identifiers that reflect the variety of ways African Americans have identified
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Historical Memory
Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.
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Intimate Historical Practice
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked
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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil
The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship
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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of
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