Racial ecologies

Racial ecologies /

"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, su...

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Other Authors: Nishime, LeiLani (Editor), Hester Williams, Kim D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Environmental justice > United States.
Discrimination > United States.
Social ecology > United States.
Environmental sociology > United States.
Environmental sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
NATURE > Ecology.
Discrimination
Environmental justice
Environmental sociology
Social ecology
Écologie humaine > États-Unis.
Sociologie de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Justice environnementale > États-Unis.
United States
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Table of 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.

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