African American Environmental Thought : Foundations, Hardcover by Smith, Kim...

by Kimberly K. Smith

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African American Environmental Thought : Foundations, Hardcover by Smith, Kimberly K., ISBN 0700615164, ISBN-13 9780700615162, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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 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 urban reform, Smith highlights the continuity of twentieth-century 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 alienat

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Year: 2007
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780700615162
• Condition: Good

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