Racist Trees(2022)

To change the present, sometimes you have to uproot the past

Racist Trees is a documentary that explores a provocative question: can a tree be racist? The film centers on a row of tamarisk trees planted along a golf course in Palm Springs, California, that screen off Crossley Tract, a historically Black neighborhood. Named after founder Lawrence Crossley, one of the first Black residents in the predominantly white resort town, the neighborhood sits on land taken from indigenous peoples over a century ago. When debate over these trees reached national media outlets, it sparked broader conversations about environmental racism, urban planning, and how physical barriers—even natural ones—can perpetuate segregation. Racist Trees examines the intersection of landscape design, racial history, and community identity in a place built on displacement and exclusion.

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