Research Project
Heirs’ Property in African American Communities in Alachua County, Florida: Inheritance, Taxation, and Security
My project aims to understand the interface between social and legal regimes of inheritance, property, and taxation on heirs’ property collectively owned by African American communities in Alachua County, Florida. It seeks to understand more precisely the range of factors that impede property transmission, including the reasons why property owners do not have legally recognized wills, approved tax documents, or legal representation to maintain their property claims, obligations, and entitlements.
Ethnographic Methods
The research employs a range of methods to understand processes, forces, practices, conditions, and factors that facilitate the loss of heirs' property (intergenerational property) of African Americans.
Key terms: Heirs'property, kinship, obligations, entitlements, dispossession, human experience, hospitality, enmity, emotions, and memories.
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