The introduction and 17 essays in The Colors of Nature movingly address the question, “What is the earth to people of color?” Exploring history, displacement, return, and relationship to place, these writers show that the ways Americans have impacted nature are inseparable from racism and inequities in economic and political power. Featured contributors include Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, Francisco X. Alarcon, Yusef Komunyakaa, Diane Glancy, and others.
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Our perception of nature is a cultural construct formed in part by nature writing, which has long been dominated by Euro-American voices. The exclusion of writings by people of color about place, nature's wonders, and our species' uncanny ability to wreak havoc on the natural world has skewed and limited the genre, and cheated society out of a fuller understanding of the connection between social injustice and environmental destruction. Coeditors Deming, a poet and nature writer, and Savoy, a geologist, begin to remedy this omission with their unprecedented and invaluable collection of forthright and bracing essays by writers of "diverse cultural origins and disciplinary backgrounds." Jamaica Kincaid and Francisco X. Alarcon write about nature and imperialism in the "New" World. American Indian writer Joseph Bruchac writes about owls, turkeys, turtles, and protecting his ancestors' burial grounds from developers. Memories of her Kentucky hill childhood inspire bell hooks to portray nature-wise "country black folks," while poets and scientists ardently and knowledgeably discuss everything from parrots to ethnobotany, and environmental racism. A salient contribution to the increasingly important nature-writing canon. Donna Seaman
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Two women are walking up a snowy trail to Humphreys Peak, adjacent to the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Native American, United States, New York, Christopher Columbus, New World, Snake Poems, George Clifford, Japanese Americans, New Mexico, North America, Yusef Komunyakaa, African Americans, Los Angeles, Magic City, Native Hawaiians, David Mas Masumoto, Enrique Salmon, Sierra Tarahumara, White Pass, World War, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Mexico City, Mother Earth New!
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Two women are walking up a snowy trail to Humphreys Peak, adjacent to the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hazardous cargo, environmental racism, painted turtle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native American, United States, New York, Christopher Columbus, New World, Snake Poems, George Clifford, Japanese Americans, New Mexico, North America, Yusef Komunyakaa, African Americans, Los Angeles, Magic City, Native Hawaiians, David Mas Masumoto, Enrique Salmon, Sierra Tarahumara, White Pass, World War, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Mexico City, Mother Earth New!
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- Magic City (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Yusef Komunyakaa on page 98, page 100, and page 111
- Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo on page 104, and page 111
- Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston on page 179, and page 180
- Hawaiian Antiquities (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publication) by David Malo on page 134, and page 135
- Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Emily Dickinson on page 112
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- Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation by Curt Meine PhD in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (The World As Home) by Bill McKibben in Back Matter
- On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (The World As Home) by Gretchen Legler in Back Matter
- Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast by Edward Abbey in Back Matter
- The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (The World As Home) by Mary Rose O'Reilley in Back Matter
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