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Swamp Capitalism: Environmental Racism in South Louisiana Landscapes

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Virtual Event

Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” is a corridor along the Mississippi River lined with oil refineries and plastic manufacturing plants on the sites of former plantations. Startling images of toxic smokestacks rising over sugarcane fields and towns founded by descendants of enslaved African and African American people have come to symbolize environmental racism in its most extreme form. This presentation travels through racial, economic, and ecological layers of Louisiana’s sugar plantations, oil fields, salt mines and wetlands over the course of millennia. Using archives, oral histories, earth sciences and mixed media artmaking, Swamp Capitalism excavates new dimensions of environmental racism and introduces a larger vision for environmental justice.

This event is open to the public.

Register in advance for this meeting.

Schools

Arts & Sciences

Topic

Humanities & Society

Website

https://artsci.wustl.edu/events/swamp...

Group
Black History Month
Event Contact

afas@wustl.edu

Speaker Information
The Department of African & African American Studies welcomes Dr. Robin McDowell of Harvard University, Department of African and African American Studies.
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Kim Etter

Kim Etter left a positive review 2/9/2021

It was great and left me overwhelmed thinking of all the history we've never been taught on racism throughout our country.