![]() ![]() ![]() Proceeds from your purchase support critical projects and programs throughout Glacier National Park. Booktopia has Black Faces, White Spaces, Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney. Watch the Zoom discussion with author Carolyn Finney here. This was the October 2021 Book Club selection. Parks and Protected Areas Management (REC3460) Ohio University. Black Faces, White Spaces Discussion New. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns. Black Faces, White Spaces Add to My Books. ![]() 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.ĭrawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. 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. ![]()
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