{"product_id":"black-earth-rising-colonialism-and-climate-change-in-contemporary-art-9780500028780","title":"Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Earth Rising\u003c\/em\u003e presents works by artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American identity that address vital questions of land, presence, climate crisis, and social and environmental justice against the historical backdrop of European settlement of the New World. Supported by an exhibition curated by the author, this timely publication invites us to trace and make the connections between race, the climate crisis, and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks by over 150 contemporary artists are presented in three thematic sections: Reckoning, Reimagining, and Reclaiming. Complex and intertwined concepts are explored: forced migration and slavery, the environmental consequences of colonialism, the occupation of Native lands, the urban plight of Black and Brown communities, and how cultural practices and knowledge systems of indigenous peoples can change our perspectives of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling and thought-provoking, \u003cem\u003eBlack Earth Rising\u003c\/em\u003e presents a discourse around climate change that situates the voices of people of color at the active center rather than on the passive periphery, and expands our understanding of aesthetic perspectives on climate change through artworks that reach to the poetic and lyrical rather than the didactic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eG�mez-Barris, Macarena:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEshun, Ekow:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEkow Eshun\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, curator, journalist, and broadcaster based in London, whose writing has appeared in publications including \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e. Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2005 to 2010, and a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programs, his previous books include \u003cem\u003eBlack Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAfrica State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIn the Black Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319039623442,"sku":"9780500028780","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_39dc8216-09e8-49c5-b539-e9cbbc3068f2.jpg?v=1748522403","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-earth-rising-colonialism-and-climate-change-in-contemporary-art-9780500028780","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}