It chronicles the 1965 civil rights march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., that resulted in passage of the Voting Rights Act. The film that brought DuVernay to the attention of a broader audience base was the 2014 historical drama Selma.
After working for a few years in film publicity, she started her own company to market movies. The Q&A portion will not be recorded so attendees can engage freely.Ībout the Book: Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.Ava DuVernay graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 with bachelor’s degrees in English and African American studies. The presentation portion will be recorded and sent out to registered attendees. This event is open to Switzer Fellows and close colleagues. A fireside chat and extended Q&A with attendees will follow the presentation, facilitated by Switzer Fellow Lisa Stoddard. By engaging in “green” conversations with black people from around the country, Carolyn considers the power of resistance and resilience in the emergence of creative responses to environmental and social challenges in our cities and beyond. Finney explores the complexities and contradictions of American history as it relates to green space, race and the power to shape the places we live in our own image.
What does the environment have to do with it? How do we meet this moment? Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field”, her lived experience, and this moment of reckoning, Dr. Join the Switzer Network Race & Equity Discussion Group for a lecture and conversation with author Carolyn Finney about her book Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Outdoors.Ĭhristian Cooper.
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