Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage Native American Literature and living a meaningful life

and living a meaningful life

” Grandpa tells Danny about one animal each day

the insect is mesmerized by the glowing bioluminescence

the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage Native American Literature and living a meaningful lifeCrossing the ocean on a slave ship, working the land under threat of violence, eluding racists in nighttime chases through moonless fields and woodlands, stumbling across a murder victim hanging from a treethese are images associated with the African American experience of nature. Over the decades, many African Americans have come to accept that natural areas are dangerous. Unfamiliar with the culture's rich environmental heritage, people overlook the