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Black Faces, White Spaces
- Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both White and Black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.
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Makes a clear case for the dominant culture's habitual (though, sometimes unwitting) rejection of African Americans."—Library Journal, starred review