“It doesn’t mean that it’s not important, it means that’s not what’s coming up. “What they were telling me was that the history of this country about race influenced a lot of their thinking about the environment,” she says. But in conversations, she found that race, not class, is the dominant factor in terms of how people engage with the environment. Her talk, “Homecoming: Black Faces, White Spaces, and Stories of Future Belonging,” is part of the “Diverse Voices” lecture series launched last fall.įinney believes that people assume that African Americans don’t have the money to access the outdoors. It doesn’t get counted in the conversations.”įinney will speak about race and the environment at 4 p.m., Thursday, April 14 in Burke Auditorium. “But every single day you can drive all around Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and down towards the Keys, and see black and brown people fishing from bridges and the canals,” she says. For example, while there are three big national parks in close proximity to Miami, records show there aren’t large numbers of people of color going to the parks.
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