Afro-Frontier® & Borderlands
100 years later, Intersections at Blackdom, New Mexico
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Blackdom Oil Co. Centennial10:30 am - Noon (CST) | 11:30 am - 1 pm (MST)
Dr. Timothy E. Nelson
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Chair: Dr. Herbert G. Ruffin, II, Syracuse University
Commentator: Alyssa Kreikemeier, Boston University
HBCU and Tribal College Students your attendance is needed at this online conference. Your future work will shift historical narratives. Join Dr. Timothy E Nelson on October 15, 2020 at 11:30 am CST. Brought to you in part by Blackdom Productions Ltd. Co.
In September of 1903, a group of families represented by 13 Black ministers, military men, and freemasons established the Blackdom Townsite Co. in Chaves County, at the Southeastern Section of the New Mexico Territory. By 1909, Blackdomites realized their investment in the Blackdom Townsite Co., which yielded land and incorporated commons, or “promised land,” issued from the government in the form of homesteads with patents. What followed was an age of Afro-Frontierism. When Blackdomites’ matured investment yielded a dividend on December 31, 1919, they declared the establishment of the Blackdom Oil Company, for which families continued to receive royalty payments well after the Second World War. Their boldness is evident in the naming of the oil company. These were New Negroes who chose the desert prairies of New Mexico practiced self-governance and were economically sovereign throughout the 1920s.“Black Excellence,” a hundred years ago wasn’t random. The New Negro Movement was in full swing and like Harlem; Blackdom, New Mexico had a renaissance during the “Roaring Twenties.” Dr. Timothy E. Nelson discovered a whole decade of New Black History with the use of a new framework, Afro-Frontierism, to quarantine White Supremacy. This workshop is an attempt to decolonize Black Colonization at the turn of the 20th Century from Exodusterism and reset the narrative trajectory away from a focus on “White people” and their oppression.
*Presenters
Timothy E. Nelson, “Intersections at Blackdom | Borderlands & Afro-Frontierism”
Darold Cuba, #MappingFreedom Project
Austin Miller, “Blackdom: Interpreting the Hidden History of New Mexico’s Black Town”
Janice Dunahoo, “George Malone – First Black Attorney in New Mexico”
Gregory Allen Waits*, “The Pursuit of Utopia Beyond the Color Line at Blackdom”
*Cancelled
Fall of 2019, Rita Powdrell, Nikesha Breeze were invited to join this panel, however, they declined.
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Fall of 2019, Rita Powdrell, Nikesha Breeze were invited to join this panel, however, they declined. 〰️
All individuals (students included) who join the Western History Association this fall will also be able to attend the online 2020 Conference for FREE.
Link to #WHA2020 program.