Racial and Anti-colonial Lab project: Black relationships to place and environment in a climate and environmental justice community
Tianna Bruno, Professor
Geography
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a Black community that has long faced climate and environmental injustices. In addition to oral histories, I collected environmental records in the form of tree cores to examine histories of contamination and place environmental history in relation to the racial histories. These findings will be visualized in this digital humanities project in ways that make them accessible to students and community members
Qualifications: Students will create story maps of historical places in the environmental justice community where this project is focused, Port Arthur, Texas. Related to the story map, students will assist in building a database of oral histories and environmental histories collected from this community environmental justice community.
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social Sciences