Author Event! Tao Leigh Goffe's "Dark Laboratory"

Please join us for a book talk with Tao Leigh Goffe on Tuesday, March 18th
at 4pm on her new book, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and
the Origins of the Climate Crisis, in conversation with Professor Brian
Meeks. Refreshments will be provided, we hope to see you there!
In Dark Laboratory, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe embarks on a historical journey to
chart the forces that have shaped the Caribbean: the legacy of slavery,
indentured labor, and the forced toil of Chinese and enslaved Black people
who mined the islands’ bounty for the benefit of European powers and at the
expense of the islands’ sacred ecologies. Braiding together family history,
cultural reportage, and social studies, Goffe radically transforms how we
conceive of Blackness, the natural world, colonialism, and the climate
crisis. In redressing the twin apocalypses of racism and climate
catastrophe, Dark Laboratory becomes a record of the violence that
continues to shape the Caribbean today. But it is also a declaration of
hope, offering solutions toward a better future based on knowledge gleaned
from island ecosystems, and an impassioned, urgent testament to the human
capacity for change and regeneration.
Tao Leigh Goffe is a London-born, Black British award-winning writer,
theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New
York. Her research explores Black diasporic intellectual histories,
political, and ecological life. She studied English literature at Princeton
University before pursuing a PhD at Yale University. She lives and works in
Manhattan where she is currently an Associate Professor at Hunter College,
CUNY. Dr. Goffe has held academic positions and fellowships at Leiden
University in the Netherlands and Princeton University in New Jersey.

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