About this time last year, a discussion ran on the blog on Ibram X. Kendi’s great book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. I returned to the book recently, going through materials for an African American History course. During roughly the same week, in preparation for the S-USIH conference in Chicago, in preparation for the two panels that were offered on environmental thought, I had the good fortune to read papers by Elesha Coffman, John Compton, Daniel Rinn, and Matthew Stewart. The result was that I couldn’t think about the latter without thinking about Read more