Book review: Dark Laboratory, by Tao Leigh Goffe

Tao Leigh Goffe is a professor of cultural history and the founder of the multi-disciplinary arts collective Dark Laboratory. Her work explores the interconnections between race and climate, as does her book of the same title.

The book looks mainly at the Caribbean, and how the legacy of plantation slavery echoes through the region’s experience of climate change. I say ‘mainly’ because as a writer of Jamaican and Chinese descent, Goffe brings an unusual perspective. She compares and cont...