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

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  • Shanon Prince Harvard University

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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i11.3759

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"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..."

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01-12-2013

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Prince, S. (2013). Green and is the new black: a grammar of ecocritical readings in african american poetry and envirommental justice law. Revista Letral, (11), 192–205. https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i11.3759

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