Welcome to the Official Website of Black Ecology studies. The term "Black Ecology" as an independent field of study and focus of environmental activism was first popularized in the 1970s by Roger M. Davis (founder of the Bronx Environmental Society, Inc.) based on an article by Nathan Hare, PhD appearing in the "Black Scholar" Journal in April 1970.
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The theory of "Black Ecology" was introduced in April 1970 by Roger M. Davis (founder of the Bronx Environmental Society, Inc.) after the term was featured in an article written in the Black Scholar Journal by Nathan Hare. The theory focused on issues of environmental justice, the disparities in the environmental quality of inner city communities versus those of the more affluent and attempted to reconcile issues of race, class and gender as affixed to precepts held in biology, ecology, genetics and human ecology.
In the 1980s the initial theory was transposed to the study of Ecologics: The Science of Black Survival as a means to explore the constant genocidal pressures being placed on people of African descent around the world in the context of global white supremacist ideas fostered in the Euro-centric interpretation of history and hegemony in the world. In the late 1980s the work in this field was largely obscured by the broader issues of environment facing the planet and the need to seek methods to bring about racial harmony. In 1990 the term "Ecologics" was abandoned and the birth of new term "Ikologiks" along with a universal focus was unveiled in the founding of the International Academy of Ikologiks and Advanced Studies, Inc. (originally, International Academy of Ikologiks & Alkebu-lanic Studies).
The current focus of this website is to raise issues of "global environmental & racial justice" as it pertains to the African diaspora. In addition, the theory still seeks an understanding of the issues surrounding race, diversity, multi-culturalism and other aspects that define the typography of humanity on this planet.