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Title: Restoring Black Place Relations in Environmental and Place-Based Education through Afrofuturist Art
Language: English
Authors: Maya Revell
Source: Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. 2026 24(1):31-54.
Availability: Caddo Gap Press. 3145 Geary Boulevard PMB 275, San Francisco, CA 94118. Tel: 415-666-3012; Fax: 415-666-3552; e-mail: caddogap@aol.com; Web site: http://www.caddogap.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 24
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Blacks, African Culture, Art Expression, Art Products, Exhibits, African American Culture, Environmental Education, Place Based Education, Racism, African American History, Colonialism
Geographic Terms: Illinois (Chicago)
ISSN: 1080-5400
2164-7399
Abstract: This article explores Afrofuturist art as a pedagogical tool for restorying Black place relations within environmental and place-based education. While dominant frameworks remain rooted in settler colonial logics that position Blackness as placeless and disconnected from ecological life, this work argues that Black ecological knowledge, temporalities, and world-making practices are essential for just environmental futures. Drawing on Black studies, Afrofuturism, and restorying methodologies, the article analyzes two Afrofuturist art exhibits--kee mabin's An Otherworldly Existence and Antoine Williams' Black Fusionist Society. Mabin's collages reimagine African and diasporic ecologies through layered histories of extraction, resilience, and speculation. Williams' transmedia project restories the 1898 Wilmington Coup through digital world-building, community participation, and frameworks such as the Ten Vibes and Mythic Beings, reframing digital non-places as sites of Black ecological storytelling. Together, these exhibits demonstrate how Afrofuturist art disrupts deficit-based narratives and offers speculative, relational, and liberatory pedagogical practices that center Black ecological thought in environmental education.
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