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Course description
Ideas of racial difference are frequently advanced as “natural” truths about the world, linked to normative conceptions of environmental relations. Reciprocally, racism—as a set of deadly ideological and material practices articulated around purported group differences—has profoundly shaped conceptions of non-human nature. This course asks how race is inflected in the politics and practices through which humans interact with the “natural” world, and explores the implications for contemporary movements and mobilizations for environmental justice.
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In the Library's collections
You can use one of these subject headings to start your research in the library's online catalog:
- race AND natureThis is a keyword search using subject headings.
- environmental justiceThis is a relatively new subject heading in the online catalog.
Introductory reading(s)
Geographical identities of ethnic America: race, space, and place by Call Number: Baker-Berry E 184 .A1 B44 2002ISBN: 9780874174878The complex relationships between human identity and place have been studied by scholars from many disciplines. In Geographical Identities of Ethnic America, eighteen distinguished geographers examine the ways in which place fashions, recreates, and contextualizes human identity in North America. Seldom has the richness of the continent's ethnic diversity been examined with such insight or sensitivity, nor have the multifarious and constantly evolving connections between places and their human occupants been studied so successfully. For scholars and students seeking fresh insights into the social, cultural, and economic aspects of North America's diverse immigrant and indigenous heritages, Geographical Identities of Ethnic America is essential reading.
Landscape and race in the United States by Call Number: Baker-Berry E 184 .A1 L256 2006ISBN: 9780415949958Landscape and Race in the United States is the definitive volume on racialized landscapes in the United States. Edited by Richard Schein, each essay is grounded in a particular location but all of the essays are informed by the theoretical vision that the cultural landscapes of America are infused with race and America's racial divide. While featuring the black/white divide, the book also investigates other social landscapes including Chinatowns, Latino landscapes in the Southwest and white suburban landscapes. ...
Landscapes of exclusion: state parks and Jim Crow in the American South by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781625341556From early in the twentieth century, the state park movement sought to expand public access to scenic American places. During the 1930s those efforts accelerated as the National Park Service used New Deal funding and labor to construct parks nationwide. However, under severe Jim Crow restrictions in the South, African Americans were routinely and officially denied entrance to these sites. In response, advocacy groups pressured the National Park Service to provide some facilities for African Americans. William E. O'Brien shows that these parks were typically substandard in relation to "white only" areas. ...
Race, nature and culture: an anthropological perspective by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780745314549Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing it as a social construct. Challenging this tradition, Peter Wade proposes in this volume that anthropologists can in fact play an important role in the study of race. Wade is critical of contemporary theoretical studies of race formulated within the contexts of colonial history, sociology and cultural studies. Instead he argues for a new direction; one which anthropology is well placed to explore. ...- Visitor diversity through the recreation manager lens: comparing Forest Service Regions 8 (U.S. South) and 5 (California) byCall Number: eBookIn response to changing demographics and cultural shifts in the U.S. population, the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture has initiated a range of “culturally transforming” management practices
and priorities aimed at better reflecting both the current and future U.S. population (USDA 2011). This makeover also calls attention
to the various publics served by the Forest Service and questions whether the Agency’s services and programming are reasonably
accessible by racial and ethnic minority populations within the U.S. populace. ...
Selected book title(s)
Black faces, White spaces: reimagining the relationship of African Americans to the great outdoors by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469614502Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces. ...
Citizens but not Americans: race and belonging among Latino millennials by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781479825523An exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials' notions of national belonging. Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society. Beyond basic demographics, however, not much is known about how they make sense of themselves as Americans. In Citizens but Not Americans, Nilda Flores-González examines how Latino millennials understand race, experience race, and develop notions of belonging. ...
Critical norths: space, nature, theory by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781602233195For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions--empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history--it has moved to the foreground of contemporary life as the most dramatic stage for the reality of climate change. This book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to ask key questions about the North and how we've conceived it--and how conceiving of it in those terms has caused us to fail the region's human and nonhuman life. Engaging questions of space, place, indigeneity, identity, nature, the environment, justice, narrative, history, and more, it offers a crucial starting point for an essential rethinking of both the idea and the reality of the North.
Inventing Black-on-Black violence: discourse, space, and representation by Call Number: Baker-Berry HV 6789 .W525 2005ISBN: 9780815630807Examines the civil invention of a social problem throughout the 1980s and beyond: "black crime." This book explores the societal construction of "black-on-black" referring to the 1980s when violence among African American perpetrators and victims increased. Massive job losses, debased identities, and rampant physical decay made American blacks seem ripe for explosive behavior. Many people blamed black lifestyle, values, and culture. David Wilson shows how America imbued a process of violence with race and accepted it as one of the country's most vexing ills during the Reagan era and afterward. ...
Race, nature, and the politics of difference by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780822330912How do race and nature work as terrains of power? From eighteenth-century claims that climate determined character to twentieth-century medical debates about the racial dimensions of genetic disease, concepts of race and nature are integrally connected, woven into notions of body, landscape, and nation. Yet rarely are these complex entanglements explored in relation to the contemporary cultural politics of difference. This volume takes up that challenge. ...
Urban renewal and resistance: race, space, and the city in the late twentieth to the early twenty-first century by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 123 .T686 2016ISBN: 9780739193839Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography, urban studies, and communication to explore how urban spaces, like Detroit and Harlem, are rhetorically structured through neoliberal discourses that mask the racialized nature of housing and health in American cities. ...
Other library resource(s)
Nature-society theory from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002Geography, meaning “earth writing,” has been centrally concerned with how humans and their environments relate to each other. Many of the most important disputes within the discipline can be traced back to different understandings of this relationship, and the history of the discipline of geography can be written as a struggle over different interpretations of nature and society. It is also argued that geography is uniquely able to address questions of society and nature as the discipline draws on a wide range of influences from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. ...- Race and racism from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002The geographic study of race and racism has a long and sometimes contested history dating to the founding of modern geography around the turn of the 20th century. Early studies were a product of their times, adopting an uncritical stance to the supposed truism that “races” existed. Thus, as European nations began to establish empires throughout Africa, Asia, and North and South America these states needed to come to terms with their conquests and to justify the exploitation of newly colonized peoples. ...
- Recreation visitor research: studies of diversity byCall Number: Electronic documentn 1987, the Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) chartered a research work unit to examine
outdoor recreation in the wildland-urban interface. The new work unit was estab-
lished to address the needs of the increasingly diverse recreation visitors to national forests. The four forest supervisors in southern California observed that in the past, most recreation visitors were White. However, that percentage was changing with an increase in diverse visitors. In particular, they noted the increasing numbers of Latino visitors. ...
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America / PBS
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Finding scholarly articles & journal title(s)
You can find articles on race AND nature in a variety of publications. You can start your search in Web of Science or use the search box at the top of the page.
Progress in human geography: nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research by Call Number: Electronic journal articleThis article examines recent geographic perspectives on park use, drawing upon environmental justice, cultural landscape, and political ecology paradigms to redirect our attention from park users to a more critical appreciation of the historical, socio-ecological, and political-economic processes that operate through, and in turn shape, park spaces and park-going behaviors. {33 (6), 2009}
Race, space, and nature: an introduction from Anitpode by Call Number: Electronic journal articleIn this essay we put forth nested arguments about the way that racialization remains a powerful force in contemporary society, contending that intersections with space and nature offer important lessons about the (de)construction of race. {46 (5), 2014}
Web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
Internet resource(s)
- Race, Space, Nature Symposium from Antipode
"Through an investigation of socio-political intersections between race, space and nature, we argue that the pernicious character traits of racial constructs develop through spatial practices and intersect with ideas about ‘nature’ and belonging. We trace these concepts through recent conversations in geography and environmental studies, and we call for a persistent, critical and prominent engagement with racialization in the spatial social sciences." (We have a subscription to Antipode so you can still read the papers.)
Citing and Tracking Your Bibliographic References
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Keeping up with Geography journal literature
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