New Study Charts How Black Rural Communities Resist Generations of Land Loss and Displacement
January 10, 2026
January 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- A research collective of scholars and organizers has released an in depth study tracing how Black rural communities across the United States have responded to centuries of land dispossession, forced migration, and policy-driven displacement, and how those responses are shaping new models for health and sovereignty today. The article, published in the journal Antipode and co-authored by SIS professor Garrett Grady-Lovelace, extends the concept of "root shock" from . . .
