Stewards of the land : race and reclaiming environmental labor in the American West / Stevie Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz, Stevie, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics.

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.

Environmentalism.

Environmental management--Social aspects--West (U.S.).

Environmental management.

Land use--Environmental aspects--West (U.S.).

Land use.

Asian Americans--West (U.S.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Asian Americans.

Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Indians of North America.

Mexican Americans--West (U.S.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Asian Americans--Case studies.

Indians of North America--Case studies.

Mexican Americans--Case studies.

West (U.S.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

West (U.S.).

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hil : The University of North Carolina Press, 2026.

Summary:

"The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern California berry fields to Japanese American concentration camps, and from Chinese cooks in national parks to Chicano Civilian Conservation Corps workers, Ruiz traces how the racialized labor and environmental knowledge of Asian migrants and Chicana/o communities built the material foundations of modern environmentalism. Spanning from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, Stewards of the Land argues that environmental justice was never just a reaction to pollution in the 1970s but has a much longer history tied to land theft, labor exploitation, and the everyday struggles of frontline communities to live and work with dignity. Drawing from comparative ethnic studies, archival research, and a commitment to decolonial praxis, Ruiz recovers the stories of those who labored-often invisibly-to build, maintain and reimagine environmental space in the American West"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Stewards of the land: race and reclaiming environmental labor in the American West

Migrant hospitality in the creation of the Outdoors Movement

Contesting legal borderlands: policing insubordinate spaces in Imperial County's farm worker communities, 1933-1940

Camp Chicano: the racialization of the greal outdoors in the Civilian Conservation Corps

Infrastructure schemes: labor, logistics, and Japanese American incarceration at the Colorado River Indian Reservation, 1942-1945

The National Land for People movement and Chicana/o environmental imagery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1469693399

9781469693392

1-4696-9338-0

9781469693385