Race and Environment in the United States: African American and Native American Perspectives from workers united for political power Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 218 min 81 sec
✓ Published: 25-Oct-2019

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This one-day symposium seeks to offer a nuanced view of the nature-culture discourse and to reframe generalizing assumptions about humans’ relationship to the natural environment which persist within western design professions, the environmental movement, and histories and theories of landscape and environmental place making. We Americans pride ourselves on the diversity of our society, yet the concept of “melting pot” has pervaded much of our framing of who we, the “public,” is. The c