Building on a small, yet growing body of scholarship focused on the political ecology of race and critical race studies of science and technology, this article follows the ways sediment, science, and race intersect on the grounds of environmental restoration in coastal Louisiana. Mobilizing ethnographic field work and historical research conducted with African-American communities and coastal scientists, I empirically expand upon geographer Kathryn Yusoff’s (2018) notion of the “geosocial registers” of the Anthropocene through an examination of the entwined histories of coastal engineering and racial inequality that situate contemporary debates about large scale coastal restoration projects along Louisiana’s disappearing coastline. In dialogue with critical work on the relationship between racism, science, and the constitution of the Anthropocene, I argue that coastal restoration is a geophysical and social process upon which racial inequality is forged and contested. The article concludes by considering how environmental restoration can participate in creating alternative forms of social and environmental repair by aligning the goals of coastal science with those of racial justice for communities of color living in changing coastal landscapes.

本文建立在一个小规模但仍在增长的奖学金上，该奖学金主要关注种族的政治生态学和对科学和技术的严格种族研究，本文沿着沉积物，科学和种族在路易斯安那州沿海地区环境恢复的基础上相交的方式进行研究。为了调动与非裔美国人社区和沿海科学家开展的人种学现场工作和历史研究，我通过考察沿海工程与种族不平等的纠缠历史，以经验为基础扩展了地理学家凯瑟琳·尤索夫（Kathryn Yusoff）（2018）的人类世“地理社会记录”概念。这引发了关于路易斯安那州日益消失的海岸线上大规模沿海恢复项目的当代辩论。通过与关于种族主义，科学与人类世纪之间关系的批判性工作进行对话，我认为沿海恢复是一个地球物理和社会过程，种族不平等是在此过程中产生和争夺的。本文的结论是考虑环境恢复如何通过使沿海科学的目标与种族正义的目标相一致，从而为生活在不断变化的沿海地貌中的有色人种共同努力，从而创造社会和环境修复的替代形式。