African American Environmental Thought: Foundations

Examines the works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and several other canonical figures, to uncover a rich and vital tradition of black environmental thought from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance. Provides the first careful linkage of the early conservation movement to black history, the first detailed description of black agrarianism, and the first analysis of scientific racism as an environmental theory.

• | Author: Kimberly K. Smith
• | Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• | Publication Date: March 01, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 268 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0700632662
• | ISBN-13: 9780700632664