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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Historical Memory
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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Landscape as Witness: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park
In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of
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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis
Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts
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