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African American Environmental Thought - Foundations (Paperback)
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Choice Outstanding Book African American intellectual thought has
long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights,
but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our
relationship to nature. In this first singleauthored 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 twentiethcentury urban
reform, Smith highlights the continuity of twentiethcentury black
politics with earlier efforts by slaves and freedmen to possess the
land. She examines the works of such canonical figures as Frederick
Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke,
all of whom wrote forcefully about how slavery and racial
oppression affected black Americans' relationship to the
environment Smith's analysis focuses on the importance of freedom
in humans' relationship with nature. According to black theorists,
the denial of freedom can distort one's relationship to the natural
world, impairing stewardship and alienating one from the land. Her
pathbreaking study offers the first linkage of the early
conservation movement to black history, the first detailed
description of black agrarianism, and the first analysis of
scientific racism as an environmental theory. It also offers a new
way to conceptualize black politics by bringing into view its
environmental dimension, as well as a normative environmental
theory grounded in pragmatism and aimed at identifying the social
conditions for environmental virtue. Smith's work offers a new
approach to established writers and thinkers and shows that they
justly deserve a place in the canon of American environmental
thought. African American Environmental Thought enriches our
understanding of black politics and environmental history, and of
environmental theory in general. Because slavery and racism have
shaped the meaning of the American landscape, this body of thought
offers us fresh conceptual resources by which we can make better
sense of our world.
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