Hemispheric Afro/Indigeneities

The dispossession of Indigenous land and the transatlantic slave trade were the foundational processes for the nation states that emerged throughout the western hemisphere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From Tierra del Fuego to Nova Scotia, these twin processes shaped the continent and the newly independent republics. Despite their intertwined importance, they have, up until recently, rarely been studied together. Our project seeks to put historians of the Indigenous Americas and the African diaspora in dialogue with each other to better understand the intersection of Black and Native histories and challenge the boundaries that separate their study.