From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.
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Plantations
‘Island on Fire’: A New Book about the Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery
In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery
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The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines
On an acre of land, in South Louisiana, surrounded by sugar cane fields, Ernest J. Gaines will be laid to
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