Black Ecologies - AAIHS

Introducing a New Series on Black Ecologies

June 16, 2020June 14, 2020 AAIHS Editors #BlackEcologies

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is launching a new interdisciplinary series titled #BlackEcologies beginning with today’s

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.

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

Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 J. T. Roane #BlackEcologies, black intellectual history, Black women, music

At noon on September 29, 1927, the clouds over St. Louis began to take on an ominous darkness. In the