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The Risks and Rewards of Being Black in Nature

Update: You can read the original, long version (i.e. 23 pages) of this essay here. I first learned about the concept of “nearby nature” in graduate school. The term was coined by Rachel Kaplan and Stephan Kaplan in their 1989 book, The Experience of Nature. The Kaplans define this form…

Black In Nature

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The risks and rewards of being Black in nature
The risks and rewards of being Black in nature
Black In Nature

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May 5, 2022

Finding My Black Botanical Groove

In February 2021, I delivered a short lecture titled “A Black Plantswoman in the 21st Century.” In that talk, I highlighted the disconnection between the portrayal of Central Park by its designer and the reality of the park’s creation, spatially linked the historic racialized displacement of Seneca Village to a…

Black Women

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Finding My Black Botanical Groove
Finding My Black Botanical Groove
Black Women

5 min read

Georgia SS

Georgia SS

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Nature curious @ localecologist. In the field @ wspecoprojects.

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