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Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina.
Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear...
Jun 1, 2018 · By using the topic of species extinction as a wedge to break open an evolving nexus of ideas connected to race, science, culture, and “nature,” Powell “attempts both to expose the racial ideas underlying modern environmentalism and to carve out a place for the environment in the history of American race-making” (p. 6).
- Kevin Adams
- 2018
A cultural and intellectual history of white men who had the means to shape racial and environmental policies, Vanishing America is structured by two key moments: the rise of a US conservation movement in the mid-nineteenth century and the emergence of post–World War II environmentalism.
- Bernadette Jeanne Pérez
- 2018
Vanishing America examines discourses of extinction - of species and of peoples - to identify key transitions in American environmental and racial thought between the mid nineteenth and mid...
Apr 10, 2017 · Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties—specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America’s vigor and stamina.
