Racial Ecologies

"This groundbreaking project centers on how the neglect of certain communities (like Flint, Michigan, and the Standing Rock Sioux community) reflects the ways in which racial difference is produced and, in turn, reinforces logics and practices that support environmental racism and environmental injustice more broadly. . . . Very impressive."—David Pellow, author of Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement

"The authors in this wonderful volume make an utterly compelling case for why ecological discussions can no longer be taken seriously if they do not center race, indigeneity, and coloniality. This is a powerful and important book that should be read by everyone concerned with how to understand and address the ecological crisis that is upon us."—Claire Jean Kim, professor of political science and Asian American studies, University of California, Irvine

"This scintillating collection surveys the emergence of radical new ways of connecting the degradation of the environment to struggles for racial justice. Ranging boldly across countries and continents for its objects of study, Racial Ecologies reveals how contemporary social movement mobilizations and works of expressive culture resonate with a fundamentally new sensibility. The impassioned and insightful chapters in this book demonstrate that the creation of bold new relations between humans and the natural world requires coming to grips, at long last, with deeply entrenched and long established patterns and practices of racialized suppression and oppression."—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place