Jamaica Kincaid: May 6th

Jamaica Kincaid

All readings available on the Plant LifeĀ Moodle site:

Alexandre Antonelli, ‘It’s Time to Decolonise Botanical Collections’, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens,June 25th, 2020. https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/time-to-decolonise-botanical-collections

Melvin Hunter, ‘Racist Relics: An Ugly Blight On Our Botanical Nomenclature’, The Scientist, November 24th, 1991.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Alien Soil’, The New Yorker, June 21st, 1993.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘Flowers of Evil’, The New Yorker, October 5th, 1992.

Jamaica Kincaid, ‘The Disturbances of the Garden’, The New Yorker, August 31st, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/the-disturbances-of-the-garden

James Wong, ‘Weeding Out Horticulture’s Race Problem’, The Guardian, June 14th, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/14/james-wong-weeding-out-the-race-problem-in-horticulture

James Wong
Specimens from Kew’s Herbarium