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Mapping Human Sacrifice Zones Through Informative Speeches, T. Jake Dionne

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Mapping Human Sacrifice Zones through Informative Speeches is a unit-length assignment that offers students the tools necessary to design, compose, delivery a well-crafted informative speech all whilst investigating and uncovering instances of environmental racism on a local and global scale. For this activity, instructors task students with selecting a case study that documents a particular manifestation of what Robert Bullard called “human sacrifice zones,” or locations of low income and minority populations targeted by ecologically hazardous systems of global capitalism. After students deliver their informative speeches, instructors distribute a world map that marks the locations of human sacrifice zones. By …