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Environmental Racism: Identity and Action

03/04/2021 @ 03/04/2021 - 03/04/2021 EST

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This program will discuss the relationship between the environment and identity and encourage us to think more broadly about the multifaceted reality of environmental racism in the United States. Rather than a lecture, Maris invites us to think of this as an opportunity to engage with different ways of knowing, experiencing the environment, and reflecting on what we–as white people and allies–can do to support the knowledge of Black and Indigenous communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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G. Maris Jones is a diasporic Afro-Indigenous scholar and native to New Orleans and The Bahamas. She is a National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania pursuing a joint Ph.D. in Anthropology and Africana Studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at Brown University where she studied Anthropology and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies. Her research explores climate change vulnerability and adaptation in coastal communities and small island states across the African diaspora. Maris’ current research project explores Black and Indigenous struggles in the face of the intersecting dangers of U.S. imperialism and climate change-related disasters in Borikén (Puerto Rico), Hawai´i, and Bulbancha (New Orleans).

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03/04/2021
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03/04/2021 EST
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