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Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, And The Origins Of The Climate Crisis
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A Groundbreaking Investigation Of The Caribbean As Both An Idyll In The American Imagination And A Dark Laboratory Of Western Experimentation, Revealing Secrets To Racial And Environmental Progress That Impact How We Live Today.Dark Laboratory Is A Gargantuan, Soulful Work. It Obliterates Most Of What I Thought I Knew About The CaribbeanS Utility To Western Wealth.Kiese Laymon, New York Times Bestselling Author Of Heavyin 1492, Christopher Columbus Arrived On The Caribbean Island Of Guanahan To Find An Edenic Scene That Was Soon Mythologized. But Behind The Myth Of Paradise, The Caribbean And Its People Would Come To Pay The Price Of Relentless Western Exploitation And Abuse. In Dark Laboratory, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe Embarks On A Historical Journey To Chart The Forces That Have Shaped These Islands: The Legacy Of Slavery, Indentured Labor, And The Forced Toil Of Chinese And Enslaved Black People Who Mined The Islands BountyIncluding Guano, Which, At The Time, Was More Valuable Than GoldFor The Benefit Of European Powers And At The Expense Of The Islands Sacred Ecologies.Braiding Together Family History, Cultural Reportage, And Social Studies, Goffe Radically Transforms How We Conceive Of Blackness, The Natural World, Colonialism, And The Climate Crisis; And, In Doing So, She Deftly Dismantles The Many Layers Of Entrenched Imperialist Thinking That Shroud Our Established Understanding Of The Human And Environmental Conditions To Reveal The Cause And Effect Of A Global Catastrophe. Dark Laboratory Forces A Reckoning With The Received Forms Of Knowledge That Have Led Us Astray.Through The Lens Of The Caribbean, Both Guide And Warning Of The ManMade Disasters That Continue To Plague Our World, Goffe Closely Situates The Origins Of Racism And Climate Catastrophe Within A Colonial Context. And In Redressing These Twin Apocalypses, Dark Laboratory Becomes A Record Of The Violence That Continues To Shape The Caribbean Today. But It Is Also A Declaration Of Hope, Offering Solutions Toward A Better Future Based On Knowledge Gleaned From Island Ecosystems, And An Impassioned, Urgent Testament To The Human Capacity For Change And Renewal.
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