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1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Chapter Five. Working to Live: Black-Led Farming in Detroit's Racialized EconomyChapter 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. |
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Chapter Ten. Māori Opposition to Fossil Fuel Extraction in Aotearoa New ZealandChapter 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. |
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Chapter Fifteen. Earthseeds of Change: Postapocalyptic Mythmaking, Race, and Ecology in The Book of Eli and Octavia Butler's Womanist ParablesAfterword. Collective Struggle, Collective Ecologies; List of Contributors; Index. |
| 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." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Environmental justice -- United States.
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Environmental justice. |
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United States. |
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Discrimination -- United States.
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Discrimination. |
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Social ecology -- United States.
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Social ecology. |
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Environmental sociology -- United States.
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Environmental sociology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nishime, LeiLani, editor.
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Hester Williams, Kim D., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Racial ecologies. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] 9780295743714 (DLC) 2018026829 |
| ISBN |
9780295743721 (electronic book) |
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0295743727 (electronic book) |
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9780295743714 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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