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The "Race Land" project examines how exploitation and entanglement upheld the white supremacist society of the U.S. South during the Cold War era. Segregationists not only exploited (and destroyed) human beings, but also the environment — human and natural resources were systematically mined to uphold the ecosystem of Jim Crow apartheid. This resource extraction happened through geopolitics and the entanglement with industries and commercial activities that were not always explicitly racial in nature: the implementation of the Marshall Plan in Europe, oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean sugar trade, the development and application of pesticides and herbicides, and the digging of canals |
