David Silkenat, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

Environmental racism experienced by BIPOC communities throughout the globe is the outcome of long-lasting ideologies and practices of exploitation and subjugation that emerged in the colonial times. In order to understand and productively address racial inequality today, it is crucial to know the p...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Autor Principal: Konrad, Tatiana
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: European journal of American studies 2023
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Environmental racism experienced by BIPOC communities throughout the globe is the outcome of long-lasting ideologies and practices of exploitation and subjugation that emerged in the colonial times. In order to understand and productively address racial inequality today, it is crucial to know the past in which racism was formulated. David Silkenat’s Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South zeroes in on the example of American slavery to explicate the relat...