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Other nature: resistance to ecological hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman.
From: African American Review
Date: 20030322
Author:Myers, Jeffrey
The nation was founded on the principles of "free land" (stolen from Native Americans and Mexicans), "free labor" (cruelly extracted from African slaves), and "free men" (white men with property). From the outset, institutional racism shaped the economic, political, and ecological landscape, and buttressed the exploitation of both land and people. (Robert D. Bullard, "Anatomy of Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement")
[The Earth] is perceived, ironically, as other, alien, evil, and threatening by those who are finding they cannot draw a healthful breath ...
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