She details how African American aversion to the “great outdoors” stems from “what those spaces represent in the eyes of a black person hobbled by repressive rules, cultural norms, racist propaganda, and the possibility of death” (117). Addressing the supposed mystery of why black Americans appear less drawn to wild places, Finney-an assistant professor of geography and environmental and sustainability studies at the University of Kentucky-both solves that “mystery” and turns her magnifying glass back to those who had been stumped.
“When we consider landscapes like national parks, or other areas of ‘natural’ beauty, what you see is not always way you get,” writes Carolyn Finney in Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (117).
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