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Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930
Paperback
Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: Southwest
Publisher Price: $26.95
ISBN13: 9781682831755
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Jul 15 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township's story
where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico's Northern Frontier.
Dr. Nelson illuminates the set of conscious efforts that helped Black pioneers
Blackdom started as an inherited idea of a nineteenth-century
Afrotopia. The idea of creating a Blackdom was refined within Black
institutions as part of the perpetual movement of Black Colonization. In 1903,
thirteen Black men, encouraged by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, formed the Blackdom
Townsite Company and set out to make Blackdom a real place in New Mexico, where
they were outside the reach of Jim Crow laws.
Many believed that Blackdom was simply abandoned. However,
new evidence shows that the scheme to build generational wealth continued to
exist throughout the twentieth century in other forms. During Blackdom's boomtimes,
in December 1919, Blackdom Oil Company shifted town business from a
regenerative agricultural community to a more extractive model. Nelson has
uncovered new primary source materials that suggest for Blackdom a newly
discovered third decade. This story has never been fully told or contextualized
until now.
Reoriented to Mexico's northern frontier, one
observes Black ministers, Black military personnel, and Black freemasons who
colonized as part of the transmogrification of Indigenous spaces into the
American West. Nelson's concept of the Afro-Frontier evokes a Turnerian West,
but it is also fruitfully understood as a Weberian Borderland. Its history highlights
a brief period and space that nurtured Black cowboy culture. While Blackdom's
civic presence was not lengthy, its significance--and that of the Afro-Frontier--is
an important window in the history of Afrotopias, Black Consciousness, and the
notion of an American West.
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