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DESCRIPTION:This conversation\, organized by Dr. Richard McKinley Mizelle\,
  Jr. (University of Houston) in conversation with Benjamin Clark (IUPUI)\,
  will highlight key moments in the long fight against environmental racism
  led by Black activists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.This e
 vent will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants the d
 ay before the event. ASL Access will be provided by ProBono ASL.Meet the S
 peakers!Richard McKinley Mizelle\, Jr. is associate professor of history a
 t the University of Houston. His research\, writing\, and lecturing focuse
 s on the history of race and healthcare politics\, chronic disease\, envir
 onmental health\, and the historical connections between gender\, identity
 \, and ethnicity in medicine. Mizelle is the author of Backwater Blues: Th
 e Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination (Universit
 y of Minnesota Press\, 2014) and co-editor of Resilience and Opportunity: 
 Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita (Brookings Institu
 tion Press\, 2011). His work has appeared in a wide range of academic jour
 nals and publications including the Lancet\, ISIS\, Journal of African Ame
 rican History\, History Compass\, Open Rivers Journal\, Los Angeles Review
  of Books\, and the American Historian Magazine. His research has also bee
 n quoted in the Washington Post\, New York Times\, New Yorker Magazine\, a
 nd he has appeared and consulted on numerous local and national podcasts i
 ncluding NPR Throughline and the Atlantic’s Floodlines.Benjamin Clark is a
  PhD student in IUPUI’s American Studies program\, with a concentration in
  applied anthropology. He works as a research assistant at the IUPUI Arts 
 and Humanities Institute on a project called the Anthropocene Household\, 
 which looks at the current epoch at the local level by examining the house
 hold as a way to understand lived experiences\, knowledges\, and practices
  associated with environmental change. Ben’s research interests include cr
 itical environmental justice\, the role of white supremacy in environmenta
 l racism\, and using ethnographic methods in environmental justice studies
 . He holds an MA in public history\, also from IUPUI\, and has worked as a
  historian for Indiana’s state parks system for more than a decade
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Histories of Lead Activism in America
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