Sankofa Farms Is an Education: Five Questions for Kamal Bell
Farmer and educator Kamal Bell discusses the growth of Sankofa Farms and the legacies of racism and dispossession for African American farmers.
Tagged: Race and Ethnicity
Decolonizing Labor in the Caribbean: A Conversation with Shona Jackson
Dr. Shona Jackson discusses labor in the Caribbean and the need for radical, collective labor histories that include Creole groups and Indigenous peoples.
Organic Farming’s Political History
Organic farming has far-right roots. While the movement has grown beyond those, its history shows why we must examine our theories of social change.
In Hawaiʻi, Plantation Tourism Tastes Like Pineapple
The Dole pineapple plantation has a destructive history of transforming the Hawaiian Islands. Mallory Huard describes how that continues today in the tourism industry.
Whose Utopia? American Ecofascism Since the 1880s
A 19th-century novel about a (white) women’s utopia at the center of the earth documents the long history of American eugenics and ecofascism.
Food Is Just the Beginning: A Conversation with Monica White
Farming has been a part of Black freedom struggles for a long time. It’s always been about much more than growing food.
Eight Online Environmental Archives to Bookmark
These digital environmental archives offer a range of approaches to environmental histories, cultural practices, and ecological changes.
What Counts as Environmental Storytelling: A Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita
The award-winning author and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Creative Writing discusses storytelling during environmental crisis, legacies of Japanese incarceration, and why ethnographies are environmental writing.
Recommended Readings for a Radical Life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, and other activists and educators recommend books that challenge the divisions of life drawn by settler colonialism, racial slavery, and the natural sciences.
Plantation Housing Isn’t the Answer to Homelessness in HawaiÊ»i
A “plantation-style community” might ease houselessness in HawaiÊ»i. But it also erases violent histories of labor exploitation and Native dispossession. Leanne Day and Rebecca Hogue discuss Kahauiki Village and the dangers of plantation nostalgia.
