FYI.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:05:47 +0100
From: Kornelis Oosthoek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP for African American Urban Environmental History Papers
for 2003
Association for Study of African American Life & History Meeting
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From: Sylvia Hood Washington
Broken Promises, The Urban Environment, Environmental Inequalities and
African American Migrants, 1900-1940
This is a CFP for a panel that will examine the transformation in
environmental and geographical spaces of African American migrants entering
Northern urban and industrialized centers during the two great migration
periods. It will try to elucidate a history of African American migrants
who left and traded marginalized (and sometimes optimal) rural and urban
spaces in the South for what they thought were promised �geographical� spaces
of a higher quality of life from both an economic, social , cultural and
environmental perspective in Northern urban and industrialized centers like
Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh.
The panel will also discuss how these migrants responded to these geographical
and concomitant environmental changes. Forced by racial covenants and
redlining the majority of these migrants experienced precursive forms of
environmental racism because of austere forms of racial segregation and there
is evidence that they responded to these early environmental assaults. My own
paper for this panel will focus on the public health and environmental health
problems faced by African Migrants in Chicago during the Great Migration
periods and
their responses to these problems. I am seeking up to 3 additional
participants for the panel. Ideal papers will focus on urban centers other
than Chicago. Individuals interested in participating on this panel should
forward their abstract along with their CV to me at the following email
address by January 1,2003.
I apologize in advance for the cross posting.
Sylvia Hood Washington, MSE, Ph.D., ND
Visiting Scholar, History
Northwestern University
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Director
Environment, Society and Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
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