{"product_id":"blackdom-new-mexico-the-significance-of-the-afro-frontier-1900-1930-paperback","title":"Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy E. Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHerbert G. II Ruffin\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about\u003cbr\u003ethirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township's story\u003cbr\u003ewhere it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico's Northern Frontier.\u003cbr\u003eDr. Nelson illuminates the set of conscious efforts that helped Black pioneers\u003cbr\u003edevelop Blackdom Township into a frontier boomtown. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Blackdom\" started as an inherited idea of a nineteenth-century\u003cbr\u003eAfrotopia. The idea of creating a Blackdom was refined within Black\u003cbr\u003einstitutions as part of the perpetual movement of Black Colonization. In 1903, \u003cbr\u003ethirteen Black men, encouraged by the 1896 \u003ci\u003ePlessy v. Ferguson \u003c\/i\u003edecision, formed the Blackdom\u003cbr\u003eTownsite Company and set out to make Blackdom a real place in New Mexico, where\u003cbr\u003ethey were outside the reach of Jim Crow laws.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMany believed that Blackdom was simply abandoned. However, \u003cbr\u003enew evidence shows that the scheme to build generational wealth continued to\u003cbr\u003eexist throughout the twentieth century in other forms. During Blackdom's boomtimes, \u003cbr\u003ein December 1919, Blackdom Oil Company shifted town business from a\u003cbr\u003eregenerative agricultural community to a more extractive model. Nelson has\u003cbr\u003euncovered new primary source materials that suggest for Blackdom a newly\u003cbr\u003ediscovered third decade. This story has never been fully told or contextualized\u003cbr\u003euntil now.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReoriented to Mexico's \"northern frontier,\" one\u003cbr\u003eobserves Black ministers, Black military personnel, and Black freemasons who\u003cbr\u003ecolonized as part of the transmogrification of Indigenous spaces into the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican West. Nelson's concept of the Afro-Frontier evokes a \"Turnerian West,\"\u003cbr\u003ebut it is also fruitfully understood as a Weberian \"Borderland.\" Its history highlights\u003cbr\u003ea brief period and space that nurtured Black cowboy culture. While Blackdom's\u003cbr\u003ecivic presence was not lengthy, its significance--and that of the Afro-Frontier--is\u003cbr\u003ean important window in the history of Afrotopias, Black Consciousness, and the\u003cbr\u003enotion of an American West.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978521903405,"sku":"9781682831755","price":26.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/yWm7-ttt9v9781682831755.webp?v=1775805614","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/blackdom-new-mexico-the-significance-of-the-afro-frontier-1900-1930-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}