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- Dungy, Camille T.,--Homes and haunts
- African American gardens--Colorado--Fort Collins
- African Americans--Social conditions
- Gardeners--Biography
- Gardening--Colorado--Fort Collins
- Multiculturalism
- Plant species diversity
- Women gardeners--Colorado--Fort Collins--Biography
- Gardening--Colorado--Social aspects
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Title Statement | Soil: the story of a Black mother's garden / Camille T. Dungy. |
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Author | Dungy, Camille T., 1972- |
Publication | New York: Simon & Schuster,2023. |
Edition | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 317 pages |
ISBN | 9781982195304 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07025953 |
General Notes | Includes reader's guide. Maps on endpapers. |
Summary | "Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013 with her husband and daughter, the community held restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it"-- |
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By Topic | African American gardens--Colorado--Fort Collins |
African Americans--Social conditions | |
Gardeners--Biography | |
Gardening--Colorado--Fort Collins | |
Multiculturalism | |
Plant species diversity | |
Women gardeners--Biography--Colorado--Fort Collins | |
Gardening--Social aspects--Colorado | |
By Name | Dungy, Camille T.,1972---Homes and haunts |
By Genre | Biographies |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives |