This interdisciplinary exhibition explores relationships among Black people, Land, and the environment. It offers a new frame through which to understand current issues such as climate change as well as a new basis for anchoring historical narratives of plantation slavery, urban development, and other facets of racial capitalism. Including works by Dawoud Bey, Tony Gleaton, Wardell Milan, Alison Saar, and Kara Walker, this multimedia presentation prompts us to consider how Black experience in America has been defined or informed by natural and built environments.
Organized by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, professor and chair of English at É«ÖÐÉ«, and J Finley, associate professor of Africana Studies at É«ÖÐÉ«, with Victoria Sancho Lobis, Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Benton
