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.

“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

• Foreword: Surveying a Field of StudyPatty LimerickIntroduction: Environmental History and White Settler SupremacyMary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles  Section I: Not Just Green: Environmental Histories of Bodies, Trash, Prisons, and CitiesChapter 1: Naturalizing Difference: Labor and Slavery in Colonial GeorgiaKatherine JohnstonChapter 2: Dirty Work Reconsidered: On the Historical Dynamics of Labor, Waste, and Race in Industrial SocietyCarl A. ZimringChapter 3: “The City of Destruction”: The Chicago School of Sociology’s Ecological Interpretation of Race, Migration, and InequalityElizabeth Grennan BrowningChapter 4: Collective Memory for the African Motherland in Interwar Black Chicago and the Limits of the Environmental Justice ModelColin FisherChapter 5: States of Confinement and Ecological Violence: Incarceration and the Struggle for Environmental JusticeDavid Naguib Pellow  Section II: Almost Green, But Not Quite: New Perspectives on the Environmental History of Parks and other Green(ish) PlacesChapter 6: Islands of Freedom: The Struggle to Desegregate Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountain National Park, 1936-1941Teona Williams         Chapter 7: Conserving Whiteness: The Crisis of Tenancy and New Deal Rural Rehabilitation in the Cotton SouthKathryn Taylor MorseChapter 8: Harvest of Self-Help: The Politics and Paradoxes of Southeast Asian Refugee Community GardensCecilia Tsu  Section III: Not Just White: Diverse Environmentalisms & Environmental Narratives in Historical PerspectiveChapter 9: Amputated from the Land: Black Refugees from America and the Racialized Roots of the Environmentalism-Environmental Justice DivideBryon WilliamsChapter 10: Glen Canyon Dam, Rainbow Bridge, and Hole-in-the Rock: Diversifying Environmentalisms and the Struggle over “Sacred” Landmarks in the American WestErika BsumekChapter 11: “How Would You Feel If Someone Were Allowed to Kill One of Your Grandparents?”: Native Hawaiian Opposition to the Pacific Shark Fin TradeMiles A. PowellChapter 12: Radical Presence – The Shadows take Shape: African Americans (Re)making a Green WorldCarolyn Finney  Section IV: Decolonizing Justice: Indigenous Environmentalisms and Struggles over Meaning, Power, and PrivilegeChapter 13: Turnerian, Si! Americano No!: Disentangling Nature, Exceptionalism, and the Whiteness of the American Immigration StoryMary E. MendozaChapter 14: Pushed Into the Margins: Native Women and Environment in Settler CaliforniaTraci Brynne VoylesChapter 15: From Idle No More to Standing Rock & the Fight for Indigenous Environmental JusticeKent BlansettChapter 16: Seeing the Trees: The Fight for Cultural Sovereignty along the Banks of Sand CreekAri KelmanConclusion: Transforming the Field, Transforming the FutureMary E. Mendoza Traci Brynne Voyles