Racial ecologies / edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nishime, LeiLani, editor.

Hester Williams, Kim D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--United States.

Environmental justice.

Environmental sociology.

Social ecology.

United States.

Discrimination--United States.

Discrimination.

Social ecology--United States.

Environmental sociology--United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

"From the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people's lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those of Mexican migrant women, New Zealand Maori, and African American farmers in urban Detroit, demonstrating that people of color have always been and continue to be leaders in the fight for a more equitable and ecologically just world. Grounded in an ethnic-studies perspective, this interdisciplinary collection illustrates how race intersects with Indigeneity, colonialism, gender, nationality, and class to shape our understanding of both nature and environmental harm, showing how and why environmental issues are also racial issues. Indeed, Indigenous, critical race, and postcolonial frameworks are crucial for comprehending and addressing accelerating anthropogenic change, from the local to the global, and for imagining speculative futures. This forward-looking, critical intervention bridges environmental scholarship and ethnic studies and will prove indispensable to activists, scholars, and students alike"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Foreword: Racial ecologies : a view from ethnic studies / Curtis Marez

Introduction: Why racial ecologies? / Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams

Rethinking Race and Ecology. "We are the land and the land is us" : indigenous land, lives, and embodied ecologies in the twenty-first century / Dian Million

An Africana studies critique of environmental ethics / Stephen Nathan Haymes

The artful things of climate change / Min Hyoung Song

Landscapes of Racialization. Racial ecologies : black landscapes in flux / Tiffany Lethabo King

Working to live : black-led farming in Detroit's racialized economy / Jessi Quizar

Replotting value : community gardens and Bessie Head's A Question of Power / Dominique Bourg Hacker

Vulnerable Embodiments. Denormalizing embodied toxicity : the case of Kettleman City / Julie Sze

Humanizing animals : talking about second chances, horses, and prisoners / Erica Tom

The ecological boundaries of Mexican migrant women's labor in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico, 1940-1960 / Ana Elizabeth Rosas

Organizing Racial and Environmental Justice. Māori opposition to fossil fuel extraction in Aotearoa New Zealand / Zoltán Grossman

A brief history of Asian American activism and why it matters for environmental justice / Sunny Chan

"Es una lucha doble" : articulating environmental nationalism in Puerto Rico / Catalina Maíre de Onís

Speculative Futures. "Wound intricately throughout my sphere" : spatial subjectivity in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest / Ashley Cheyemi McNeil

Remembering Gojira/Godzilla : nuclearism and racial reproduction in America's Asia-Pacific / Yu-Fanh Cho

Earthseeds of change : postapocalyptic mythmaking, race, and ecology in The Book of Eli and Octavia Butler's womanist parables / Kim D. Hester Williams

Afterword: Collective struggle, collective ecologies / Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Racial ecologies

ISBN:

9780295743714

0295743719

9780295743738

0295743735

OCLC:

1011170914

Publisher Number:

99977613182

40028367637