Race and The Environment 2009-2010

 

Focus On: Race and The Environment

The Program in African and African American Studies is working with faculty leaders of the University’s Challenge Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability to plan courses and opportunities that address the intersections of environmental science and race. Program leaders are planning to bring expertise to help selectively incorporate race research into interdisciplinary environmental study, particularly since environmental scholarship regularly engages issues of cultural difference in relation to environmental stewardship and policy.

 

Events

October 8, 2009

Bryant Terry, "Redefining Soul Food: Politics and Pleasures of Food and Eating in the Black Communities"

7pm Annenberg Auditorium

Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author. For the past nine years he has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism and food insecurity.

Sponsored by The Ethics of Food and the Environment and African & African American Studies

 


October 29, 2009

Faculty Race Network "Race & Environment"

Dinner and Presentation with The First Nations Futures Program

7:00-9:00pm, Spalti's

Please RSVP to LaSundra Flournoy at lflourno@stanford.edu by October 20th

The First Nations Futures Program, is an organization dedicated to international Native land stewardship, sovereignty, and leadership which has a relationship with the Woods Institute. This is a joint collaboration with the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (RICSRE) and the Woods Institute through the Race Forward Initiative. The discussion of Race and Environment will open with reflections on Maori and Hawaiian cultural worldviews by:

Sir Tipene O`Regan, Assistant Vice Chancellor University of Canterbury
Dr. Jonathan Kamakawiwo`ole Osorio, Professor University of Hawaii-Manoa
Mr. Neil J. Kaho`okele Hannahs, Director Land Assets Division Kamehameha School

 

November 5, 2009

Faculty Race Network "Race & Environment"

Dinner and Presentation with Jennifer Eberhardt, Associate Professor of Psychology and Courtney Bonam, PhD student in Psychology

6:00-8:00pm, Spalti's

If you're interested in attending please contact Michele Elam at melam@stanford.edu

Polluting Black Space

Black Americans are overrepresented among those exposed to industrial pollution in the U.S. Using experimental social psychological methods, we examine whether individual-level racial bias in deciding where to build noxious facilities could be one factor contributing to this
phenomenon. This is a joint collaboration with the Research Institute at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (RICSRE) and the Woods Institute through the Race Forward Initiative.