"[Kimberly Smith] argues that racial oppression, slavery, sharecropping and segregation altered the meaning of the American landscape for black people. She argues that these injustices alienate black Americans from the land in critical and enduring ways. Therefore, when black Americans reclaim their interest in land, nature, and the environment, they do so in ways that are uniquely concerned with equity and distributive justice."
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Being Black on Earth Day, from RaceWire
By the by, Melissa Harris Lacewell is my ultimate academic/theoretical crush (I’ve linked her before).
