Celeste Henery - AAIHS

Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge

As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and

In the wake of Black History Month, I turn towards Black relations: of blood, of nation, of necessity, and the

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

In 2001, John Bortle, an experienced, American amateur astronomer, created a scale to measure the darkness of a night’s sky.

What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of