Not Just Green, Not Just White

Mary E. Mendoza is an assistant professor of history and Latino/a studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of several journal articles and book chapters about the intersections of race, environment, health, and disability. Traci Brynne Voyles is a professor and department head of history at North Carolina State University. She is the author of The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Nebraska, 2021) and Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. Patty Limerick is a professor of history at the University of Colorado and the author of Desert Passages, The Legacy of Conquest, and Something in the Soil.  

Foreword: Surveying a Field of Study
Patty Limerick
Introduction: Environmental History and White Settler Supremacy
Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles
 
Section I: Not Just Green: Environmental Histories of Bodies, Trash, Prisons, and Cities
Chapter 1: Naturalizing Difference: Labor and Slavery in Colonial Georgia
Katherine Johnston
Chapter 2: Dirty Work Reconsidered: On the Historical Dynamics of Labor, Waste, and Race in Industrial Society
Carl A. Zimring
Chapter 3: “The City of Destruction”: The Chicago School of Sociology’s Ecological Interpretation of Race, Migration, and Inequality
Elizabeth Grennan Browning
Chapter 4: Collective Memory for the African Motherland in Interwar Black Chicago and the Limits of the Environmental Justice Model
Colin Fisher
Chapter 5: States of Confinement and Ecological Violence: Incarceration and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
David Naguib Pellow
 
Section II: Almost Green, But Not Quite: New Perspectives on the Environmental History of Parks and other Green(ish) Places
Chapter 6: Islands of Freedom: The Struggle to Desegregate Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National Park, 1936-1941
Teona Williams         
Chapter 7: Conserving Whiteness: The Crisis of Tenancy and New Deal Rural Rehabilitation in the Cotton South
Kathryn Taylor Morse
Chapter 8: Harvest of Self-Help: The Politics and Paradoxes of Southeast Asian Refugee Community Gardens
Cecilia Tsu
 
Section III: Not Just White: Diverse Environmentalisms & Environmental Narratives in Historical Perspective
Chapter 9: Amputated from the Land: Black Refugees from America and the Racialized Roots of the Environmentalism-Environmental Justice Divide
Bryon Williams
Chapter 10: Glen Canyon Dam, Rainbow Bridge, and Hole-in-the Rock: Diversifying Environmentalisms and the Struggle over “Sacred” Landmarks in the American West
Erika Bsumek
Chapter 11: “How Would You Feel If Someone Were Allowed to Kill One of Your Grandparents?”: Native Hawaiian Opposition to the Pacific Shark Fin Trade
Miles A. Powell
Chapter 12: Radical Presence – The Shadows take Shape: African Americans (Re)making a Green World
Carolyn Finney
 
Section IV: Decolonizing Justice: Indigenous Environmentalisms and Struggles over Meaning, Power, and Privilege
Chapter 13: Turnerian, Si! Americano No!: Disentangling Nature, Exceptionalism, and the Whiteness of the American Immigration Story
Mary E. Mendoza
Chapter 14: Pushed Into the Margins: Native Women and Environment in Settler California
Traci Brynne Voyles
Chapter 15: From Idle No More to Standing Rock & the Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
Kent Blansett
Chapter 16: Seeing the Trees: The Fight for Cultural Sovereignty along the Banks of Sand Creek
Ari Kelman
Conclusion: Transforming the Field, Transforming the Future
Mary E. Mendoza Traci Brynne Voyles