Brian McCammack, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Lake Forest College, talks about his new book, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago.

In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago travels to Chicago’s parks and beaches as well as youth camps, vacation resorts, and the farms and forests of the rural Midwest. Situated at the intersection of race and place in American history, Landscapes of Hope traces the contours of a black environmental consciousness that runs throughout the African American experience despite persistent racial discrimination and violence in many of these places.

Sponsored by the Ethics Center of Lake Forest College.

Recorded Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 in Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College.