To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History

by Dianne D. Glave (Editor), Mark Stoll (Editor)

Overview

"To Love the Wind and the Rain" is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in U.S. history. It focuses on three major themes: African Americans in the rural environment, African Americans in the urban and suburban environments, and African Americans and the notion of environmental justice. Meticulously researched, the essays cover subjects including slavery, hunting, gardening, religion, the turpentine industry, outdoor recreation, women, and politics. "To Love the Wind and the Rain" will serve as an excellent foundation for future studies in African American environmental history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822958994
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	12/30/2005
Edition description:	1
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

What People are Saying About This

Susan Power Bratton

Filling a major lacuna in the historic literature, Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll capture the depth and breadth of African American encounters with nature. Covering topics from agricultural slavery to liberation theology to race riots originating in exclusion from recreational space, this accessible volume is the perfect reader for a course on environment and culture. (Baylor University)

Robert Gottlieb

'To Love the Wind and the Rain' is an invaluable book for its insights into environmental and social history, the African American experience, and how the question of the environment can be understood by examining the lives of women and people of color. It stretches the boundaries of environmental history and places at the center of that field those who have for too long been ignored by environmental and social historians. (Occidental College)

Editorial Reviews

"'To Love the Wind and the Rain' is an invaluable book for its insights into environmental and social history, the African-American experience, and how the question of the environment can be understood by examining the lives of women and people of color. It stretches the boundaries of environmental history and places at the center of that field those who have for too long been ignored by environmental and social historians."
--Robert Gottlieb, Occidental College

"Filling a major lacuna in the historic literature, Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll capture the depth and breadth of African American encounters with nature. Covering topics from agricultural slavery, to liberation theology, to race riots originating in exclusion from recreational space, this accessible volume is the perfect reader for a course on environment and culture."
--Susan Bratton, Baylor University

"Will help set the course for emerging African American environmental historical scholarship. This collection of essays will enhance not only the existing but also future environmental histriography by including the added and much needed perspectives of race and gender."
--Journal of American Ethnic History

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