
Description: The course explores the formation of the Black Atlantic as a conceptual and geographic space through texts, music, performance and visual art. Starting with the trade in humans and the middle passage, and ending with contemporary environmental questions, students explore the inventiveness set in motion by communities of the black diaspora as they struggle for racial and environmental justice through a diversity of strategies, across time and space. They investigate the ways in which these efforts have transformed the West and discuss the ways in which they continue to do so. This course builds on ENVS 3160, Race/Racism and Environmental Justice.Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing or by permission of the Instructor; Students with third- year standing may have access subject to space availability and approval from the Faculty
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