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The colors of nature : culture, identity, and the natural world / edited by Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2011.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 337 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1571313192
  • 9781571313195
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH81 .C663 2011
Contents:
Widening the frame / Lauret E. Savoy and Alison H. Deming -- Return. Birth witness / Ofelia Zepeda -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Tales from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning / Camille T. Dungy -- Crossing boundaries / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Working in a region of lost names / Fred Arroyo -- Notes on the New World / Faith Adiele -- Invoking the ancestors / Aileen Suzara -- Hope and feathers : a crisis in birder identification / J. Drew Lanham -- Witness. Confronting environmental racism in the twenty-first century / Robert D. Bullard -- 70117 / A.J. Verdelle -- Dark waters / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Mujere de Maíz : women, corn, and free trade in the Americas / Maria Melendez -- Hazardous cargo / Ray Gonzalez -- Silent parrot blues / Al Young -- The art gallery / Elmaz Abinader -- Touching on skin / Kimiko Hahn -- Encounter. The thinking men / Nikky Finney -- Learning the grammar of animacy / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Listening for the ancient tones, watching for sign, tasting for the mountain thyme / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Earthbound : on solid ground / bell hooks -- This weight of small bodies / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Sharing breath : some links between land, plants, and people / Enrique Salmon -- Burning the shelter / Louis Owens -- At the end of Ridge Road : from a nature journal / Joseph Bruchac -- Praise. Reclaiming ourselves, reclaiming America / Francisco X. Alarcón -- A tapestry of browns and greens / Nalini Nadkarni -- Porphyrin rings / Jennifer Oladipo -- Becoming Métis / Melissa Nelson -- In the valley of its saying / Debra Kang Dean -- Tarsenna's defiance garden in which I love to spit / Thylias Moss -- Ke au Lono i Kaho'olawe, ho'i = The era of Lono at Kaho'olawe, returned / Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele -- Belonging to the land / David Mas Masumoto.
Summary: "From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories--stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. For centuries, this richness has been widely overlooked by readers of environmental literature. Including work from more than thirty contributors of widely diverse backgrounds, this collection works against the grain of this traditional blind spot by exploring the relationship between culture and place, emphasizing the lasting value of cultural heritage, and revealing how this wealth of perspectives is essential to building a livable future"--Page 4 of cover.
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Cultural Diversity
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB455.5 .D46 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800181034
Total holds: 0

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Widening the frame / Lauret E. Savoy and Alison H. Deming -- Return. Birth witness / Ofelia Zepeda -- In history / Jamaica Kincaid -- Tales from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning / Camille T. Dungy -- Crossing boundaries / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Working in a region of lost names / Fred Arroyo -- Notes on the New World / Faith Adiele -- Invoking the ancestors / Aileen Suzara -- Hope and feathers : a crisis in birder identification / J. Drew Lanham -- Witness. Confronting environmental racism in the twenty-first century / Robert D. Bullard -- 70117 / A.J. Verdelle -- Dark waters / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Mujere de Maíz : women, corn, and free trade in the Americas / Maria Melendez -- Hazardous cargo / Ray Gonzalez -- Silent parrot blues / Al Young -- The art gallery / Elmaz Abinader -- Touching on skin / Kimiko Hahn -- Encounter. The thinking men / Nikky Finney -- Learning the grammar of animacy / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Listening for the ancient tones, watching for sign, tasting for the mountain thyme / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Earthbound : on solid ground / bell hooks -- This weight of small bodies / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Sharing breath : some links between land, plants, and people / Enrique Salmon -- Burning the shelter / Louis Owens -- At the end of Ridge Road : from a nature journal / Joseph Bruchac -- Praise. Reclaiming ourselves, reclaiming America / Francisco X. Alarcón -- A tapestry of browns and greens / Nalini Nadkarni -- Porphyrin rings / Jennifer Oladipo -- Becoming Métis / Melissa Nelson -- In the valley of its saying / Debra Kang Dean -- Tarsenna's defiance garden in which I love to spit / Thylias Moss -- Ke au Lono i Kaho'olawe, ho'i = The era of Lono at Kaho'olawe, returned / Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele -- Belonging to the land / David Mas Masumoto.

"From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories--stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. For centuries, this richness has been widely overlooked by readers of environmental literature. Including work from more than thirty contributors of widely diverse backgrounds, this collection works against the grain of this traditional blind spot by exploring the relationship between culture and place, emphasizing the lasting value of cultural heritage, and revealing how this wealth of perspectives is essential to building a livable future"--Page 4 of cover.

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