You will also discover who we were|are, the struggles we endured and our many achievements, and how we willingly became Black suburbanites and produced Black suburban villages, towns, and neighborhoods. This chapter also draws attention to what Black suburban living looks, feels, and sounds like, what it means to be a Black suburbanite, and how a collective of Black aviators built the first Black airport in an all-Black suburban village in 1931. Black | Southland is grounded in and prioritizes the histories and lived experiences of Black Southlanders and the ways Black people (re)shape Blackness as a geographic formation through a Black sense of place and how it transforms the suburban form. By complicating Black suburban narratives across the post-Reconstruction and post-Civil Rights eras, I unravel the complexities of Black identity through the geographic scales that produce them and demonstrate how a suburban sub-region like Chicago Southland became Black