Returning the People to the land: An Exploration of Black Americans’ relation to the natural world in the past and present
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2023
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Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). Department of Environmental Studies
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This paper explores the relationship of Black Americans toward natural outdoor spaces, what histories and dynamics have informed this relationship, and exploring ways in which this relationship influences our foodways and culinary cultures. In this paper, I explore Black folks’ relationship with land before colonization and enslavement, examples of the systematic disenfranchisement of Black people from the natural world by white people, and Black resilience to this systematic disenfranchisement by returning to the land and embracing creativity in the cultivation and cooking of homegrown diasporic ingredients.