Tag: Race and Ethnicity
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How Being “an Environmentalist” Became an Identity
in EssaysIn the 1960s, environmentalists often pitted the “natural self” against “artificial” social identities like race, class, and gender. Alexander Menrisky argues that this vocabulary still obscures issues of environmental justice in the U.S. today.
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Financing American Inequality: A Conversation with Paige Glotzer
in PodcastsHistorian Paige Glotzer discusses the segregated suburbs and what the history of Baltimore’s Roland Park Company has to do with today’s inequality.
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On Being the (Only) Black Feminist Environmental Ethnographer in Gulf Coast Louisiana
in FieldnotesEthnographer Frances Roberts-Gregory describes the importance of embracing ‘Black girl reliable’ and supporting frontline communities.
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Fugitive Seeds
in EssaysChristian Brooks Keeve traces how fugitive seeds and seed stories are deeply entangled with the stories and legacies of the Black diaspora.
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Sankofa Farms Is an Education: Five Questions for Kamal Bell
in PodcastsFarmer and educator Kamal Bell discusses the growth of Sankofa Farms and the legacies of racism and dispossession for African American farmers.
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Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson
in PodcastsDr. Shona Jackson discusses labor in the Caribbean and the need for radical, collective labor histories that include Creole groups and Indigenous peoples.
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Organic Farming’s Political History
in EssaysOrganic farming has far-right roots. While the movement has grown beyond those, its history shows why we must examine our theories of social change.
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In Hawaiʻi, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple
in EssaysThe Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands. Mallory Huard describes how that continues today in the tourism industry.
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Whose Utopia? American Ecofascism Since the 1880s
in EssaysA 19th-century novel about a (white) women’s utopia at the center of the earth documents the long history of American eugenics and ecofascism.
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Food Is Just the Beginning: A Conversation with Monica White
in PodcastsFarming has been a part of Black freedom struggles for a long time. It’s always been about much more than growing food.