Black Ecologies - AAIHS

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.

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

Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

Rebuiding Church (A Poem)

June 21, 2019June 11, 2019 Lavinia Jackson art, Black church, Black Ecologies, poetry, religion, Virginia

St. John’s Got to scrappin’, grappling With Deshae out some windows And Mt. Landing Out the others. Her pews