The colonial roots of the black mustard plant

The colonial roots of the black mustard plant
- July 5, 2022
- Tom Boellstorff, anthropology, KCET, July 5, 2022
"We know that plants were mobile," says Tom Boellstorff, a professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine who has researched the link between ecology and settler colonialism. "Indigenous peoples of the Americas moved around, and birds pooped and carried [seeds] around. But they were much more ecologically linked, [whereas] colonization was a [more intensive] planting and agricultural project."
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