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Rooted in the Earth : Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781569767511
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rooted in the Earth : Reclaiming the African American Environmental HeritageDDC classification:
  • 305.896/073
LOC classification:
  • E185 -- .G54 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: PEOPLE AND CURRENTS -- 1. The Atlantic Ocean: CURRENTS OF LIFE AND DEATH -- 2. Topography: NAVIGATING THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE -- 3. Religion: SHOUTING IN THE WOODS -- 4. Resistance: REBELLION, SUSTENANCE, AND ESCAPE IN THE WILDERNESS -- 5. Preservation: BLENDING THE PRACTICAL AND THE PURIST -- 6. Conservation: AN AFRICAN LEGACY OF WORKING THE LAND -- 7. Children: DREAMING AND DANGER IN WOODS AND FIELDS -- 8. Nature Study: OBSERVING, CLASSIFYING, AND UTILIZING THE NATURAL WORLD -- 9. Women and Gardening: A PATCH OF HER OWN -- 10. Environmental Justice: FREE TO BREATHE -- Conclusion: HERITAGE AND THE FUTURE -- Acknowledgments -- Resources -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Photo Credits -- Index.
Summary: With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international trends in fashion, music, and the arts ever since. But because of this urban focus, many African Americans are not at peace with their rich but tangled agrarian legacy. On one hand, the book shows, nature and violence are connected in black memory, especially in disturbing images such as slave ships on the ocean, exhaustion in the fields, dogs in the woods, and dead bodies hanging from trees. In contrast, though, there is also a competing tradition of African American stewardship of the land that should be better known. Emphasizing the tradition of black environmentalism and using storytelling techniques to dramatize the work of black naturalists, this account corrects the record and urges interested urban dwellers to get back to the land.
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ULS: Environmental History of Christianity ULS: Spring 2024

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: PEOPLE AND CURRENTS -- 1. The Atlantic Ocean: CURRENTS OF LIFE AND DEATH -- 2. Topography: NAVIGATING THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE -- 3. Religion: SHOUTING IN THE WOODS -- 4. Resistance: REBELLION, SUSTENANCE, AND ESCAPE IN THE WILDERNESS -- 5. Preservation: BLENDING THE PRACTICAL AND THE PURIST -- 6. Conservation: AN AFRICAN LEGACY OF WORKING THE LAND -- 7. Children: DREAMING AND DANGER IN WOODS AND FIELDS -- 8. Nature Study: OBSERVING, CLASSIFYING, AND UTILIZING THE NATURAL WORLD -- 9. Women and Gardening: A PATCH OF HER OWN -- 10. Environmental Justice: FREE TO BREATHE -- Conclusion: HERITAGE AND THE FUTURE -- Acknowledgments -- Resources -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Photo Credits -- Index.

With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out of the Great Migration and has contributed to international trends in fashion, music, and the arts ever since. But because of this urban focus, many African Americans are not at peace with their rich but tangled agrarian legacy. On one hand, the book shows, nature and violence are connected in black memory, especially in disturbing images such as slave ships on the ocean, exhaustion in the fields, dogs in the woods, and dead bodies hanging from trees. In contrast, though, there is also a competing tradition of African American stewardship of the land that should be better known. Emphasizing the tradition of black environmentalism and using storytelling techniques to dramatize the work of black naturalists, this account corrects the record and urges interested urban dwellers to get back to the land.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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