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Ecowomanism at the Panama Canal - Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
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Ecowomanism at the Panama Canal - Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives
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In Ecowomanism at the Panama Canal: Black Women, Labor, and
Environmental Ethics, Sofia Betancourt constructs a transnational
ecowomanist ethic that reclaims inherited environmental cultures
across multiple sites of displacement. Betancourt argues that as
survivors of the inconceivable, as carriers of cultural values and
communal accountability, and as those who have never been allowed
to reject or forget our their own embodiment, women in the African
diaspora have a unique understanding of how a moral refusal to
compromise their humanity provides the very understanding needed to
survive what was once an inconceivable level of environmental
devastation. That wisdom redefines our ideas of survival itself,
and in doing so gives us new knowledge on what it means to live a
value-centered, human life. This understanding of human nature and
its interrelatedness with all of creation draws from the moral
wisdom of women in the African diaspora. Most specifically, this
work is guided by the experiences of West Indian women, imported to
Panama by the United States from across the Caribbean, whose labor
supported the building of the Panama Canal-the so-called silver men
and women who faced mud, mosquitoes, and malaria while building a
literal pathway to American empire.
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