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Danielle Purifoy: “Remote Control”—Plantations and Black Forest Ecologies in the Black Belt
Danielle Purifoy: “Remote Control”—Plantations and Black Forest Ecologies in the Black Belt
This talk examines how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit. Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative […]