Author : Kimberly K. Smith
Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis African American Environmental Thought by : Kimberly K. Smith
Download or read book African American Environmental Thought written by Kimberly K. Smith. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.