RACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
The lecture critiques the dominant Euro-American environmental narrative, highlighting the exclusion of African American perspectives. Drawing on Carolyn Finney’s 'Black Faces, White Spaces', it examines how slavery, systemic racism, and cultural memory have shaped African Americans' relationship with nature and their absence from mainstream environmental discourse.
The lecture critiques the dominant Euro-American environmental narrative, highlighting the exclusion of African American perspectives. Drawing on Carolyn Finney’s 'Black Faces, White Spaces', it examines how slavery, systemic racism, and cultural memory have shaped African Americans' relationship with nature and their absence from mainstream environmental discourse.