Recreation and Racism Part III: Forbidden Forests
Although the lyrics of a famous folk song proclaim, “This land is your land, this land is my land; this land was made for you and me,” America’s great outdoors hasn’t always beckoned or been friendly to Black/African Americans. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, on an excursion to public and national parks to learn why these spaces weren’t originally intended for everyone’s enjoyment. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry
Citations
'Black man in a white space': America's racist parks - New York Daily News
A Legacy of Racism in America's Parks
America's national parks face existential crisis over race
Finney, Carolyn, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors,The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, 2014.
How can the National Park Services work to be anti-racist?
It’s time to own up to the racism and violence embedded in the names of parks and public lands
Outdoor Afro – Where Black People & Nature Meet
Why America's National Parks Are So White
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