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Reading List

  • Dianne Glave, Rooted In The Earth: Reclaiming The African American Environmental Heritage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2010.
  • Nathan Hare “Black Ecology,” The Black Scholar, Vol 1, No 6: 2–8.
  • Sylvia Wynter, “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou, no. 5 (June 1971): 95–102.
  • Katherine McKittrick. “Diachronic loops/deadweight tonnage/bad made measure.” Cultural Geographies, 2016; 23(1):3-18.
  • Huey P. Newton, “Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970.”
  • Robert Bullard. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
  • Environmental Racism in St. Louis Report, Washington University in St. Louis and Community Partners, 2019.
  • Clyde Woods. Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. London: Verso, 1998.
  • Walter Johnson. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Brian Allen Drake, ed. The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
  • Eric Foner. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
  • Andrew Kahrl. The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. 
  • Brandi Summers. Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.
  • Lawrence, David Todd, and Elaine J. Lawless. When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018.
  • Edward Onaci, Free the Land – The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
  • Ronald Takaki. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, (Revised) 2008.
    • “Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land” in Chapter 5: “‘No More Peck o’ Corn:’ Slavery and Its Discontents,” p. 131–139.
  • Thavolia Glymph. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    • “When She Gets Thro With Her Crop” in Chapter 6: “‘A Makeshift Kind of Life:’ Free Women and Free Homes,” p. 171–179.
  • Leah Penniman. Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
    • Introduction: Black Land Matters
  • Michele E. Lee. Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing, Oakland: Wadastick Publishers, 2014.
    • Narratives from “Reclaiming Our Natural Healing Tradition”
    • Recipes from “The Ailments and their Remedies”
  • De Nichols, The Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Social Movement, Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2021.

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