Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Carolyn Finney examines why American wilderness has been coded as white space — and what that erasure has cost. Part history, part cultural criticism, part personal reckoning. Essential reading for anyone who thinks the outdoors belongs to everyone but hasn't asked why it doesn't feel that way.
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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
The scientific investigation behind The Serpent and the Rainbow — the ethnobotany of Haitian zombie powder, Vodou pharmacology, and the boundary between death and not-death. Academic but riveting.
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