Black Environment Readings

Ashia Ajani
Resident, May-June 2021

Online Articles

• Derek Gladwin (2020). “Digital storytelling going viral: using narrative empathy to promote environmental action,” Media Practice and Education, 21:4, 275-288,  DOI: 10.1080/25741136.2020.1832827

• Golden, K. B. (2021). “Armed in the Great Swamp”: Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp. The Journal of African American History, 106(1), 1-26.

• Lorde, Audre. “Of Generators and Survival-Hugo Letter.” Callaloo, vol. 14, no. 1, 1991, pp. 72—82. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2931437. Accessed 6 Dec. 2020.

• Williams, B. (2018). “That we may live”: Pesticides, plantations, and environmental racism in the United States South. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(1—2), 243—267. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618778085

Poetry/Multigenre

• Brand, D. (2012). A map to the door of no return: Notes to belonging. Vintage, Canada.

• Gumbs, A. P. (2018). M Archive: After the end of the world. Duke University Press.

• King, T. L. (2019). The Black shoals: Offshore formations of Black and Native studies. Duke University Press.

• Komunyakaa, Y. (2000). Talking dirty to the gods: poems. Macmillan.

Nonfiction

• McKittrick, K., & Woods, C. A. (Eds.). (2007). Black geographies and the politics of place. South End Press.

• Ruffin, K. (2010). Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions. Athens; London: University of Georgia Press. Retrieved April 6, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46nkgt

• Yusoff, K. (2018). A billion black Anthropocenes or none. U of Minnesota Press.

Fiction

• The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

• Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé

• The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

• Sula by Toni Morrison

Movies

• Candyman, dir. Bernard Rose

• Eve’s Bayou, dir. Kasi Lemmons

• Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins

• The Color Purple, dir. Steven Spielberg

For more of Ashia’s work, visit ashiaajani.com.