Green and is the new black: a grammar of ecocritical readings in african american poetry and envirommental justice law

• Prince, Shanon ^[1]
  1. [1] Harvard University

     Harvard University

     City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Revista Letral, ISSN-e 1989-3302, Nº. 11, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número misceláneo), págs. 192-205
• Idioma: inglés
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  • español

    "I begin this paper with two excerpts from African American poetry. The first evokes a past in which blacks were possessions; the second, a future in which they are interplanetary pilgrims. To connect them, I’d like to offer a quote not from verse but from the public discourse of African American environmental justice activist, Van Jones: “In my neighborhood, you go around talking to people about polar bears, they are not feeling you..."

  • English

    "I begin this paper with two excerpts from African American poetry. The first evokes a past in which blacks were possessions; the second, a future in which they are interplanetary pilgrims. To connect them, I’d like to offer a quote not from verse but from the public discourse of African American environmental justice activist, Van Jones: “In my neighborhood, you go around talking to people about polar bears, they are not feeling you.”..."