Dreams of a Black Commons on Turtle Island

Dreams of a Black Commons on Turtle Island

This essay opens with a discussion of the Black commons and the possibility it offers for visioning coherence between Black land relationality and Indigenous sovereignty. Two sites of history – Black slavery and Black migration prior to the twentieth century – present illuminations and challenges t...

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Main Author:	Rachel Zellars
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Brock University 2021-01-01
Series:	Studies in Social Justice
Subjects:	Black commons emancipation settler colonialism migration
Online Access:	https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/2243

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