Author
Randolph; Ned
Year
2024
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
20
ISBN
978-0-52039-721-7
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
Environmental Science ; African American Studies ; American Studies ; sustainability-discipline ; Public Policy & Administration ; Environmental Studies
My early memories are murky and, like sediment, can be reshaped and sometimes permanently obscured. Particularly my memories of mud—alluvial silt and clay delivered by water so omnipresent in a childhood of bayous and streams. I grew up in a town on the Red River, which gave my home parish (not county) the name Rapides. Before the Red River was irreparably tamed by the US Army Corps of Engineers’ $2 billion lock and dams project in the 1980s, it flowed with force.¹ It was too dangerous for swimming. And sometimes, when the water level was low, you could see...
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