Not just green, not just white : race, justice, and environmental history / edited by Mary E. Mendoza, Traci Brynne Voyles, and Patricia Nelson Limerick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendoza, Mary E., editor.

Voyles, Traci Brynne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--United States--History.

Human ecology.

Environmental policy--United States--History.

Environmental policy.

Green movement--United States.

Green movement.

Environmental justice--United States.

Environmental justice.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and critical engagement with the nonhuman world, provides a fertile context for understanding racism and ongoing colonialism as power structures in the United States. Earlier historiography has defined environmental history as the study of the changing relationships between humans and the environment-or nature. This volume aims to redefine the field, arguing that neither humans nor environment are monolithic actors in any given story. Both humans and the environment are diverse, and often the environment causes conflict between and among peoples, leaving unequal access and power in its wake. Just as important, these histories often reveal how, despite unequal power, those who carry less privilege still persist. Together these essays demonstrate the promise of the field of environmental history and reveal how, when practitioners in the field decide to move away from "green" and "white" topics, they will be able to explain much more about our collective past than anyone ever imagined. "-- Provided by publisher.

"This collection analyzes the relationship between environment, race, and justice through a historical lens, exploring how environmental injustices have profoundly shaped communities of color throughout U.S. history and today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword

Field trip : a tour through new scholarly terrain / Patty Limerick

Introduction: The ownership of the Earth / Mary E. Mendoza

Part 1. Not just green : environmental histories of bodies, trash, prisons, and cities. 1. Naturalizing difference : labor and slavery in colonial Georgia / Katherine Johnston ; 2. Dirty work reconsidered : on the historical dynamics of labor, waste, and race in industrial society / Carl A. Zimring ; 3. City of destruction : the Chicago School of Sociology's ecological interpretation of race, migration, and inequality / Elizabeth Grennan Browning ; 4. Collective memory for the African motherland in interwar Black Chicago and the limits of the environmental justice model / Colin Fisher ; 5. States of confinement and ecological violence : incarceration and the struggle for environmental justice / David Naguib Pellow

Part 2. Almost green, but not quite : new perspectives on the environmental history of parks and other green(ish) places. 6. Islands of freedom : the struggle to desegregate Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, (1936-41) / Teona Williams ; 7. Conserving whiteness : the crisis of tenancy and New Deal rural rehabilitation in the cotton South / Kathryn Morse ; 8. Harvest of self-help : the politics and paradoxes of Southeast Asian refugee community gardens / Cecilia M. Tsu

Part 3. Not just white : diverse environmentalisms and environmental narratives in historical perspective. 9. Amputated from the land : Black refugees from America and the racialized roots of the environmentalism-environmental justice divide / Bryon Williams ; 10. Glen Canyon Dam, Rainbow Bridge, and Hole-in-the-Rock : diversifying environmentalisms and the struggle over "sacred" landmarks in the American West / Erika Marie Bsumek ; 11. How would you feel if someone were allowed to kill one of your grandparents? Native Hawaiian opposition to the Pacific shark fin trade / Miles A. Powell ; 12. Radical presence - the shadows take shape : African Americans (re)making a green world / Carolyn Finney

Part 4. Reimagining justice : struggles over meaning, power, and privilege. 13. ¡Turnerian, si! ¡Americano, no! Disentangling wilderness, whiteness, and the American immigration story / Mary E. Mendoza ; 14. Pushed into the margins : new approaches to environmental history in settler California / Traci Brynne Voyles ; 15. From Idle No More to Standing Rock : the fight for Indigenous environmental justice / Kent Blansett ; 16. Seeing the trees : the fight for cultural sovereignty along the banks of Sand Creek / Ali Kelman ; Conclusion : Transforming the field, transforming the future / Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-4185-1

1-4962-4184-3

OCLC:

1488799919