Racial ecologies

Nishime, Leilani (HerausgeberIn, Editor). Hester Williams, Kim D. (HerausgeberIn, Editor).

Record details

ISBN: 9780295743738
ISBN: 0295743735
ISBN: 9780295743714
ISBN: 0295743719
ISBN: 9780295743721 (electronic)
ISBN: 0295743727 (electronic)
Physical Description: print
XVI, 274 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
Publisher: Seattle University of Washington Press [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Formatted Contents Note:

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.