African American Environmental Thought Foundations

Name: African American Environmental Thought Foundations
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ISBN: 9780700615162

ISBN-10: 0700615164

ISBN-13: 9780700615162

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kimberly K. Smith

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African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil right, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. Beginning with environmental critiques of slave agriculture in the early nineteenth century and evolving through critical engagements with scientific racism, artistic primitivism, pragmatism, and twentieth-century…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 3/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Strange Rendings of Nature



A Land Cursed by Injustice



Possessing the Land



Race Natures



Black Folk



Urban Montage


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index