ABOUT THIS BOOK

“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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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.

REVIEWS

“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

“‘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

"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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Foreword by Carolyn Merchant	000
Acknowledgments	000
1. African American Environmental History: An Introduction	000
Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll
2. Slavery and the Origins of African American Environmentalism	000
Mart A. Stewart
3. Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Antebellum South	000
Scott Giltner
4. African American Rural Women, Gardening, and Progressive Reform	000
Dianne D. Glave
5. Turpentine Negro
Cassandra Y. Johnson and Josh McDaniel
6. African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
Colin Fisher
7. Women, Environmental Rationale, and Activism during the Progressive Era	000
Elizabeth D. Blum
8. Nature and Blackness in Suburban Passage	000
Christopher Sellers
9. Environmental Justice, Ecoracism, and Environmental History	000
Martin V. Melosi
10. Identity Politics and Multiracial Coalitions in the Environmental Justice Movement	000
Eileen M. McGurty
11. Religion and African American Environmental Activism	000
Mark Stoll
12. Politicized Memories in the Struggle for Miami's Virginia Key Beach	000
Gregory Bush
13. Black Environmental Liberation Theology	000
Dianne D. Glave
14. Reflections on the Purposes and Meanings of African American Environmental History	000
Carl Anthony
Notes	000
Selected Bibliography	000
List of Contributors	000
Index	000

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