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Glave and Stoll Discussion Questions
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How did slavery shape the
environmental history of How did slaves turn knowledge of nature into opportunities for independence, subsistence, resistance, and even freedom? What characterized slaves’ understanding of the environment? How did labor and kin networks shape these views? What kind of gardens did black women make in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How was their gardening gendered? Formed by race? Conditioned by class? What distinguished black women’s gardening outreach efforts from the work of white reformers? How did black women’s efforts fit with other post-emancipation uplift? What kind of relationship with nature did black men have through naval stores work? How did racism and class exploitation affect this relationship? What is the historical legacy of black men’s turpentine labor in southern woods? How did this work shape African Americans’ ideas about forests and wilderness? How did the black struggle for access to environmental amenities figure in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919? Was the riot about this kind of access? How were African Americans
excluded from parks and beaches in How did black and white women’s Progressive-era reform efforts compare? What did black women do to incorporate environmental concerns into their work? What distinguished black and white experiences with nature in the suburbs? What unique obstacles did African Americans face? How did they respond? What is the “environmental justice” movement? What are its origins? How is it different from “environmentalism”? What does it have to do with race and racism? How did a focus on race help
mobilize residents of Why has the black church been so important to environmental activism? What role has it played in various struggles? What is black liberation theology? |