To Love the Wind and Rain

by Glave, Dianne D.; Stoll, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780822958994
• ISBN10: 0822958996
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780822972907
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

"To Love the Wind and the Rain" is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in United States history. It focuses on three major themes: the rural environment, urban and suburban environments, and environmental justice. Meticulously researched, the essays cover diverse subjects, including: hunting and fishing by enslaved African Americans, the gardens of rural southern women, the 1919 Chicago race riot, and the relationship of religion to environmental activism. "To Love the Wind and the Rain" serves as an excellent introduction to a fuller understanding of African American environmental history. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dianne D. Glave is Aron Senior Environmental Research Fellow at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities.
Mark Stoll is an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University and the author of Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
African American Environmental History: An Introduction	p. 1
Slavery and the Origins of African American Environmentalism	p. 9
Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Antebellum South	p. 21
Rural African American Women, Gardening, and Progressive Reform in the South	p. 37
Turpentine Negro	p. 51
African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot	p. 63
Women, Environmental Rationale, and Activism during the Progressive Era	p. 77
Nature and Blackness in Suburban Passage	p. 93
Environmental Justice, Ecoracism, and Environmental History	p. 120
Identity Politics and Multiracial Coalitions in the Environmental Justice Movement	p. 133
Religion and African American Environmental Activism	p. 150
Politicized Memories in the Struggle for Miami's Virginia Key Beach	p. 164
Black Environmental Liberation Theology	p. 189
Reflections on the Purposes and Meanings of African American Environmental History	p. 200
Notes	p. 211
Selected Bibliography	p. 237
List of Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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