A report on a unique class at WMU
“I said, ‘African-American Studies.climate change!? I’m not a real big science guy, but the fact that African-American Studies and climate change together.I need to know what this is about.’”
That is the reaction Deirdre Courtney was hoping for.
One of a handful, at most
Climate change’s many harms often hit minority communities the hardest. Yet studying global warming can be a lonely experience for students of color, in courses that are sometimes very white. The class that drew Seahorn’s attention, African-Americans and Climate Change, went in a different direction.