Not Just Green, Not Just White

Name: Not Just Green, Not Just White
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
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Race, Justice, and Environmental History

By: Mary E. Mendoza (Editor), Traci Brynne Voyles (Editor), Patricia Nelson Limerick (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2025

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Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and critical engagement with the nonhuman world, provides a fertile context for understanding racism and ongoing colonialism as power structures in the United States.

Earlier historiography has defined environmental history as the study of the changing relationships between humans and the environment-or nature. This volume aims to redefine the field, arguing that neither humans nor environment are monolithic actors in any given story. Both humans and the environment are diverse, and often the environment causes conflict between and among peoples, leaving unequal access and power in its wake. Just as important, these histories often reveal how, despite unequal power, those who carry less privilege still persist.

Together these essays demonstrate the promise of the field of environmental history and reveal how, when practitioners in the field decide to move away from "green" and "white" topics, they will be able to explain much more about our collective past than anyone ever imagined.

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"This volume has the potential to transform environmental history. It reveals the limitations of the field and develops a theoretical framework-white settler supremacy-to explain how environmental historians can move questions of race and justice to the center of their work. With an impressive cast of scholars, Not Just Green, Not Just White ranges widely across time and space and brims with original insight. It is a brilliantly conceived, remarkably perceptive collection that will inspire new stories about the environmental past."-Finis Dunaway, author of Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
"As a field, environmental history has long had a problem with being too narrow, specifically too white. Instead, this volume gives us different kinds of environmentalism that interpret diverse histories and relationships with the natural world. It provocatively connects racial hierarchies and the settler-colonial past and present to historical relationships between humans and nature."-Joshua L. Reid, author of The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs

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