{"id":908,"date":"2020-10-08T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?post_type=mec-events&p=908"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:26:08","slug":"migrations-meeting-grounds-and-memory-wha-conference","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/events\/migrations-meeting-grounds-and-memory-wha-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory – WHA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Join the Western History Association for an online event “Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory\u201d by Dr. Timothy Nelson.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 4:00 – 5:00PM MST.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Online. Register at the link:<\/span> Register for Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Uncovering and advocating the untold stories of Afro-Frontierists who founded the city of Blackdom, New Mexico.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Timothy E. Nelson\u2019s multi-faceted work concerns racism, ambition and the search for opportunity. He merges Blackdom\u2019s history with New Western History, Borderland Studies, Diasporic Studies and Blacks in the West, placing Afro-Frontierists\u00ae at the center of their histories, rather than as footnotes of other people\u2019s histories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Nelson has provided the most in-depth research on Blackdom to date, and he has challenged how the history has been framed. Instead of a story of a failed township of black people fleeing racial violence, lynching, and second-class citizenship, he found that Blackdomites left the South (and the racist mid-west) in search of opportunity and “sovereignty.\u201d Following their economic and social ambitions, black people sought out literal and figurative spaces that afforded them the opportunity to develop their skills, aspirations, and dreams in the creation of \u201cautonomous black communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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