Abstract
Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice, by Hilda Lloréns, highlights Black Puerto Rican women’s efforts to create equitable futures for their communities in the face of capitalism, racism, colonization, and ecological collapse. This review covers key concepts in Making Livable Worlds, including matriarchal dispossession, decolonizing ethnography, the myth of a homogenous Puerto Rico, and myths of inherent economic self-interest. Analyses of these concepts through an absence lens are suggested to enrich formal and informal feminist learning spaces.
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Corey-Gruenes, Ava L.
(2023)
"Review of Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice,"
Feminist Pedagogy: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol4/iss1/11
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