For geographer Carolyn Finney "environmental justice" is too narrow a construct for understanding the deepest issues about race and the environment. For Finney, it's the "racialization of space" that's important because it narrows black identity, discourages African American engagement with the natural world, and excludes poor urban gardeners from the band of "environmentalists." Finney visited the MHC campus Tuesday, September 9, to deliver a lecture titled "What's Race Got to Do with It?: Climate Change, Privilege, and Consciousness." Her talk, presented by the Mount Holyoke College Center for the Environment. Finney's visit to Mount Holyoke added new angles to the campus conversation around Danzy Senna's debut novel Causcasia, the MHC class of 2012 Common Reading.