The Whiteness of Green: Racialization and Environmental Education

Jamie B.

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This factsheet problematizes educational curricula that centers dominant Canadian narratives that normalizes whiteness within environmental education and reproduces ideas of white innocence. The factsheet argues that environmental education must include a hisory of the ongoing violent impact that settler-colonialism has on Indigenous peoples and territories to create an anti-colonial environmental program.

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  • McLean, Sheelah. "The Whiteness of Green: Racialization and Environmental Education." The Canadian Geographer 57, no. 3 (2013): 354-362.

  • Smith, Andrea. "Heteropatriarchy and the three pillars of white supremacy: Rethinking women of color organizing." In The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. ed. Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 66-73.

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