Racial Ecologies edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nishime, LeiLani., Publishing director.

Contributor:

Hester Williams, Kim D., Publishing director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination.

Environmental justice.

Environmental sociology.

Social ecology.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

Le site web de l'editeur indique : "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."

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword. Racial Ecologies: A View from Ethnic Studies

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Why Racial Ecologies?

Part One. Rethinking Race and Ecology

Chapter One. "We Are the Land and the Land Is Us": Indigenous Land, Lives, and Embodied Ecologies in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter Two. An Africana Studies Critique of Environmental Ethics

Chapter Three. The Artful Things of Climate Change

Part Two. Landscapes of Racialization

Chapter Four. Racial Ecologies: Black Landscapes in Flux

Chapter Five. Working to Live: Black-Led Farming in Detroit's Racialized Economy

Chapter Six. Replotting Value: Community Gardens and Bessie Head's A Question of Power

Part Three. Vulnerable Embodiments

Chapter Seven. Denormalizing Embodied Toxicity: The Case of Kettleman City

Chapter Eight. Humanizing Animals: Talking about Second Chances, Horses, and Prisoners

Chapter Nine. The Ecological Boundaries of Mexican Migrant Women's Labor in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico, 1940-1960

Part Four. Organizing Racial and Environmental Justice

Chapter Ten. Māori Opposition to Fossil Fuel Extraction in Aotearoa New Zealand

Chapter Eleven. A Brief History of Asian American Activism and Why It Matters for Environmental Justice

Chapter Twelve. "Es una lucha doble": Articulating Environmental Nationalism in Puerto Rico

Part Five. Speculative Futures

Chapter Thirteen. "Wound Intricately throughout My Sphere": Spatial Subjectivity in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Chapter Fourteen. Remembering Gojira/Godzilla: Nuclearism and Racial Reproduction in America's Asia-Pacific

Chapter Fifteen. Earthseeds of Change: Postapocalyptic Mythmaking, Race, and Ecology in The Book of Eli and Octavia Butler's Womanist Parables

Afterword. Collective Struggle, Collective Ecologies.

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295743721

0295743727

OCLC:

1043958779