...Daegan Miller Abstract In the fall of 1846, the first of 3,000 African American settlers set foot on their 40-acre plots in the Great Northern Wilderness of New York State, a place we now call the “forever wild” wilderness of the Adirondack State Park. These black settlers were the initial wave...

... reception, the author makes the case that new immigrants, children of the foreign-born, African Americans, and industrial workers appropriated these Chicago wilderness parks in much the same way that they borrowed and creatively rewrote Jazz-Age mass-culture entertainment such as Hollywood films. Far from...

... and excessive physicality. 9 As it was carried into twentieth-century documentary photography, visual culture scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood finds that two extremes dominate the depiction of black subjects: iconic photos of African Americans advancing civil rights (Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Martin Luther King Jr...

... histories of slavery and racism, African-American writing often expresses a traumatic and tragic relation to the natural environment—and this tragic relation has been overemphasized by ecocritics at the expense of more positive valuations of nature in African-American literature.” 36 As Boisseron points...

... to work at the plantations of former masters, prevented from owning land, and penalized by vagrancy laws. In the United States, the well-known forty acres petitioned for by the former enslaved and then ordered by General William Tecumseh Sherman did not last. Although free in principle, African Americans...

..., White Masks . New York : Grove Press , 1967 . Federici Silvia . Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation . Oakland : Autonomedia , 2004 . Finney Carolyn . Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the relationship of African Americans to the Great...

... . Daniel Pete . Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880 . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1985 . Daniel Pete . Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights . Chapel Hill : University...

... . Shetterly Margot Lee . Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race . New York : Morrow , 2016 . Siddiqi Azif Asam . The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet imagination, 1857–1957 . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010...

... environmentalism. In majority–African American Warren County, North Carolina, the EJ movement coalesced in opposition to the state’s decision to solve a statewide toxic PCB problem by collecting and dumping the PCBs in one place. Robert Bullard, the movement’s leading scholar, led the United Church of Christ’s...

... . Pollution is Colonialism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2021 . Madera Judith . Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . McKittrick Katherine . Dear Science, and Other Stories . Durham...

... bound” toward Yoruba ancestry, was released the same year Alex Haley’s Roots aired on TV, another story tracing African American heritage. Metaphors of human rootedness reach way beyond and before 1977 USA, often being used to visualize diaspora. 2 Roots are perhaps the most familiar way to convey...

..., demasculinized frogs” that have undergone “complete feminization and chemical castration.” 24 In a TED talk he describes these frogs as “NOT normal,” prompting audience laughter. 25 Hayes is, as he has discussed, outside of the norm, as an African American endocrinologist who became the youngest full...

... these layers contributed to his own fate. The geological history of Maraú Peninsula dates to the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean in the Cretaceous period, around 140 million years BP. The breakup of the paleo supercontinent Gondwana is the genesis of both South American and West African coastlines...

... with the exploitation of soil nutrients and tropical ecologies. To say that its logic was plant-centric is to say that it privileged export crops over all other forms of life, including the lives of the enslaved Africans who labored on those crops and the Indigenous peoples dispossessed from their lands. The logic...

... of the world's production of minerals, fossil fuels and so on. Thus we see that when it comes to the depletion of natural resources and environmental pollution, the increase of one inhabitant in an affluent country, at his level of living, is equivalent to an increase of many Asians, Africans or Latin Americans...

... ( 2014 ): 158 - 161 . Moses Michael Valdez “ District 9: A Roundtable .” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 11 , no. 1-2 ( 2010 ): 155 - 175 . Murray Sally-Ann . “ Working for Water's ‘AlienBusters': Material and Metaphoric Campaigns Against ‘Alien...

..., Culture of Time and Space . 24. See, for example, the work Prevalence of Rituals: Tidings (1965), part of Projections , by the African American artist Romare Bearden (1911–88); or Sammy Baloji’s photo-essay, Essay on Urban Planning (2013), in the context of the Democratic Republic...

... to homogenize place, physically produce a residue. After the Kingston coal ash flood, about half of the ash was sold to one of the poorest towns in the nation, in Perry County, Alabama, a place with a majority African American population. 54 There, a new open-air landfill holds the waste above ground...

... inscribed within the logic of race. 29 As Yusoff has shown, Charles Lyell identified a version of this anxiety in a discussion of enslaved African Americans: “Neither in their new country, nor in that of their origin, whether in a condition of slavery or freedom, have they as yet exhibited such superior...