Race, Indigeneity, Climate, & Technology

Welcome to our digital exhibit on Race, Indigeneity, Climate, & Technology. This page is a companion to the physical display in the Harvard Kennedy School Library, available through May 2025. Harvard affiliates can request books via HOLLIS, for pick-up at the library of your choice.

Tao Leigh Goffe is a Racial Justice Fellow (2024-2025) at HKS's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Associate Professor at CUNY Hunter College. In 2020 she founded Dark Laboratory, an independent research organization, tech collective, and design studio built on Goffe's work at the intersections of climate, race, and digital technologies. In 2025 she published the book Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, which explores how 1492 can be considered the origin of today's climate crisis.

This book display is a collaboration between Goffe and the HKS Library, based on the Dark Laboratory Syllabus Goffe and her collaborators have developed over the past five years. In the display you'll find historical and narrative non-fiction alongside novels and poetry that offer Black and Indigenous perspectives on land, ecology, and technology.

Book List

Click on the circular "i" icons to view book descriptions. Click on the Harvard shield icons to access ebooks (HarvardKey required).