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The Whiteness of Audubon’s Snowy Egret

Nicolas Mirzoeff’s essay, The Whiteness of Birds, brought my attention to this painting. There are layers here that probably tell us more about people than the about the ecology of the bird – about white history, white nature, white autonomy, … Continue reading

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Indian Removal and the Black Belt: Connecting ethnic cleansing and slavery

The 100-million-year story of the Black Belt, a crescent-shaped swath from Virginia to Louisiana, has been told many times – how a geological formation from the Cretaceous, visible today in the dark soils it created, can be seen in the … Continue reading

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