Kim Hester Williams, "Racial Ecologies and Speculative Future Possibilities"

Part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective's Speculative Futures of Ecologies and Climate Change Symposium:

Speculative Futures: Racial Ecologies: Dr. Kim Hester Williams (Sonoma State University)

Kim D. Hester Williams is a professor of English and American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She is co-editor, with Leilani Nishime, of Racial Ecologies, an award-winning collection of essays on the intersectionality of race, gender, and environmental crises. In this book’s Part 5, “Speculative Futures,” she contributed an essay entitled “Earthseeds of Change: Postapocalyptic Mythmaking, Race, and Ecology in The Book of Eli and Octavia E. Butler’s Womanist Parables.” Hester Williams has also published essays concerning racialization and economy in media, popular culture, and film. She currently serves as a consultant for Legacy, a journal focused on women’s literature and criticism. Her current scholarship and writing is focused on Afro/Black eco-poetics and the continuity of artistic #blacklivesmatter in(ter)ventions in the African American vernacular tradition.

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