![]() ![]() Finney analyzes not just the omission of black Americans from environmental movements but also the rejection by mass culture of black Americans’ connection to the outdoors. Carolyn Finney explores this erasure in her book Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. From writings to schools, from histories of the land to the land itself, people of color are regularly denied access to public spaces, and roles within particular places.ĭr. Even some plantation tours of the antebellum mansions of the American South omit the names and images of black people from their narratives. ![]() Nor are black Americans considered as faces of environmental movements: most people know the names of John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson, but few have heard of John Francis, among other African-American naturalists. Black Americans are rarely represented in media about outdoor recreation-except, perhaps, as workers. There is a perception in the United States that African-Americans lack a relationship with the great outdoors. ![]()
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