This talk examines the outdoor diversity movement through the lenses of environmental justice and cultural studies. The outdoor diversity movement emerged in response to the discrimination, alienation, and exclusion that many Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Latinx people, among other “unlikely hikers,” experience on public lands and in other outdoor recreation spaces.
Dr. Sarah Wald is associate professor of Environmental Studies and English at the University of Oregon. Her research interests range from environmental justice, environmental humanities, Asian American as well as Latinx literary and cultural studies to food studies, farmworker justice, and (im)migration. She is the author of numerous research articles and book chapters as well as two monographs, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl (2016) and Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial (2019).
