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Africana Studies Subject Guide — Black Indigeneity

Interdisciplinary guide for Africana/African American Studies

Black Indigeneity

This page features a small selection of UConn library and external resources to support learning and research pertaining to Black Indigeneity. This list is meant to be exploratory and is not a comprehensive representation or list of the library's holdings.

For additional assistance, please contact Stephanie Birch, Research Services Librarian for Africana Studies at stephanie.birch@uconn.edu.

What is Black Indigeneity?

This term refers to interwoven realities:

  1. African-descended Black people who were brought to the U.S. through forced migration due to the slave trade were forced into a system of settler-colonialism
  2. Black people who are the descendants of those forced into enslavement are indigenous peoples who have been stolen from their native lands
  3. African-descended Black people share experiences and/or built coalitions with other colonized indigenous peoples
  4. Black Native people exist. Their lives and experiences matter

From the Collection

Online Resources

Dark Laboratory | A New York state-based project that weaves together histories of Native and African dispossession through stolen land and stolen lives, using storytelling, indigenous knowledge systems, and media.

Afro Native Narratives | A documentary film by Macha Rose and Michael Santiago, produced by Adrian Heckstall in partnership with I Love Ancestry.