Settler Colonialism and the Whitewashing of Environmental History

• In Event: Confronting Colonial Legacies: Healing and Justice in Environmental Education

Abstract

This study examines students’ perspectives on the entrenchment of settler colonialism in environmental history. Current students, former students, and the instructors provide their reflections on (un)learning whitewashed history and analysis of class artifacts. This study is theoretically grounded in settler colonialism. Instrumental case study was the methodology

Authors

• Torrie Cropps, University of Texas - Dallas

• Jessica Bergeron, University of Texas - Dallas

• Maya Faraj, University of Texas - Dallas

• William Harpole, University of Texas - Dallas

• Debra Hernandez, University of Texas - Dallas

• Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University