Race and US Environmental History

A Companion to American Environmental History

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 97-115

  Fisher, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfred Crosby's The Columbian Exchange (1972), as well as its sequel, Ecological Imperialism (1986); Anti modern romantic yearning for primeval Indian wilderness evident in field's first classic; Dana Alston, environmental justice activist working on African American and "Third World" environmental issues; Environmental historians, castigating their own field for its failure using race as a category of historical analysis; Environmentalism and Economic Justice Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (1996); Nature and construction of society and identity; Race and US environmental history; Wilbur Jacobs, arguing that Indians had ecological answers for a late twentieth century American society that was out of balance with nature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885532201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444323610.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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