The Colors of Nature Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

by Deming, Alison Hawthorne; Savoy, Lauret E.

• ISBN13: 9781571312679
• ISBN10: 1571312676
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-09
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction As Conversation	p. 3
In History	p. 16
Reclaiming Ourselves, Reclaiming America	p. 28
At the End of Ridge Road: From a Nature Journal	p. 49
Earthbound: On Solid Ground	p. 67
Sharing Breath: Some Links Between Land, Plants, and People	p. 72
Confronting Environmental Racism in the Twenty-First Century	p. 90
Dark Waters	p. 98
Silent Parrot Blues	p. 113
Ke Au Long I Kaho'olawe, Ho'i: (The Era of Lono at Kaho'olawe, Returned)	p. 125
Burning the Shelter	p. 142
Becoming Metis	p. 146
Turning Slowly Nature	p. 153
Hazardous Cargo	p. 163
Crossing Boundaries	p. 171
Writing the Diaspora: One Black Writer's Journey from Cultural Isolation to Multicultural Inclusion	p. 181
Listening for the Ancient Tones, Watching for Sign, Tasting for the Mountain Thyme	p. 190
Belonging on the Land	p. 198
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