Tag: Race and Ethnicity
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Faculty Favorites: Ecologies & Politics of Borders
in ChecklistsEdge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on the complexities of borders. This list also includes ideas on how to frame and teach the topic of borders in the classroom.
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Faculty Favorites: What to Read (and Watch) on Race & Place
in ChecklistsEdge Effects invited scholars from a range of fields to share with us environmental books and texts on the topic of “Race and Place” that they are most excited to teach in the new academic year.
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Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca
in PodcastsPrison Agriculture Lab directors Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca discuss the ubiquity of carceral agriculture in the United States, its structuring logics of racial capitalism, and possibilities for abolitionist food futures.
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Work, Play, and Elephants in South Florida’s Leisure Landscape
in EssaysTwo elephants came to live in Miami Beach with resort guests in the 1920s, troubling the divides between humans and animals, work and play. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski examines the ambiguous role these elephants occupied in Florida’s leisure landscape.
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The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands
in EssaysReal estate developments emulating U.S.-style master-planned communities are popular in Buenos Aires. Mara Dicenta unpacks the violence such developments enact on the environment and the community, as well as the resurgence against them.
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The Boy and The Bird
in EssaysNancy J. Jacobs explores the thought-provoking, tragic relationship between enslaved Africans and the African grey parrot in eighteenth century European portraiture.
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The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway: A Conversation with Hi’ilei Julia Hobart
in PodcastsHow do certain temperatures come to be normalized and idealized in Hawai’i? Dr. Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart shares critical insights at the intersection of Indigenous dispossession and resistance.
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Unearthing the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming: A Conversation with Liz Carlisle
in PodcastsLiz Carlisle shares stories from her latest book, which uncovers the history of regenerative agriculture and the farmers of color who practice it.
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Growing Food Justice Through Urban Farming
in PodcastsIn the final episode of the Ground Truths podcast series, Clare Sullivan, Carly Gittrich, and Ben Iuliano talk to urban agriculture leaders in Dane County, Wisconsin about how their programs serve Black communities and other communities of color.
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Living with Lead in Milwaukee
in PodcastsIn 2021, rates of childhood lead exposure in Milwaukee were nearly double the state average. In this episode of Ground Truths, Juniper Lewis and Carly Griffith learn more about this public health crisis.