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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Spring 2023 |
| Registration ID | WRPRH136B002 |
| Course Title | Black Ecologies |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Environmental Studies |
| Instructor | Ebram,Tajah |
| Times and Days | TTh 11:30am-01:00pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2542 This course engages writings and cultural works about Black eco-literary and ecological traditions. Black Ecologies focuses on the multiple ecological and spatial conditions that have over-determined Black life and relationships to nature including the middle passage, slavery, racial segregation, food apartheid, gentrification and even incarceration. All these phenomena have produced unequal access to natural resources, space, food and land through systems that racialize, gender and commodify space. By exploring Black cultural and land based worker’s literary, cultural, and community responses to anti-Black environmental conditions, we will consider how Black communities reclaim spatial autonomy through creative modes of collective liberation. Student's critical and creative writing will be based on course texts and outdoor experiences of observation and laboring collectively at Haverfarm. Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing.; Crosslisted: AFST,ENVS. |
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