Ep. 89: Hunting While Black and Questioning Our Cultural Competency with Dr. Carolyn Finney
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s show, MeatEater’s Miles Nolte and I discuss the issue of race in the hunting community and consider the idea of increasing diversity within and among hunters. For the interview segment, I’m joined by Dr. Carolyn Finney, a storyteller, author, and cultural geographer who wrote the book, Black Faces, White Spaces, which addresses the relationship of African Americans to the outdoors. It’s an incredibly difficult and important conversation for us all. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | If you got kids like me, you know summer break is coming up. School's almost out. |
| 0:07.0 | It's time for that perennial question. How do you keep your kids occupied off the couch |
| 0:12.0 | when you're busy on long summer days? You sick of yelling at them, get out of the house and go, |
| 0:18.6 | oh, sorry! Well, how do you do that? Look no further. We've got a book that will provide the answer |
| 0:25.1 | to that very question and it'll provide you a lot more. My new title, Catch a Crafish Count the Stars, |
| 0:32.4 | Chock full of fun activities and adventures that will help build serious outdoor kids. We're talking |
| 0:38.7 | knowledgeable, tough, competent kids with a little bit of a raw edge to them. You want to build up a good |
| 0:47.3 | hunting buddy, a good fishing buddy out of your kid? Well, start him young by teaching them how to |
| 0:53.0 | build a wildlife viewing blind. How to gig a bullfrog. How to navigate through the wilderness using |
| 0:58.9 | a variety of orientating skills. They'll also learn how to climb trees, build emergency shelters, |
| 1:04.6 | hunt for fossils, gut fish, track critters, and much more. It's me, Eater's first book for kids. |
| 1:11.6 | And one, I've been wanting to write my whole career. I was just waiting until I had kids long |
| 1:15.3 | enough to give me some expertise on the subject. And now that my oldest is 13, I've been at this |
| 1:20.8 | a long time. We've got projects and activities for the whole family to do together. And for kids to |
| 1:26.6 | try out on their own, go to the meateater.com to pre-order your copy of the book today. It's for kids |
| 1:34.4 | eight and up. Catch a crayfish, count the stars, raise some serious outdoor kids with some serious |
| 1:40.8 | know-how, get the book now. Oh, hey there. And welcome to another podcast. At a bull's man, my |
| 1:49.3 | tannic called the hunting collective. This is episode 89. This episode, I believe is an important one. |
| 1:55.4 | It's one that's probably a little more perilous than some of the others we've done. It might be a |
| 1:59.9 | topic that turns some people off. But hey, that's us, right, Phil? For those guys. It's important. Yeah, |
| 2:05.8 | I've dragging you along, kicking and screaming on this ride that is the hunting collective. We're |
| 2:10.9 | going to be talking about race and hunting, specifically things like privilege, things like cultural |
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