Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories - Paperback

Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories - Paperback

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Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories - Paperback

Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories - Paperback

$48.60

by Connie Y. Chiang (Editor)

Explores Asian Americans' diverse connections and interactions with the natural world

As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships with diverse places and people. In the process, their actual or perceived ties to the environment have added to and amplified xenophobia and racist tropes. Indeed, white constructions of Asian Americans as the yellow peril, the perpetual foreigner, and the model minority were often intertwined with their environmental activities. At the same time, Asian Americans also harnessed environmental resources for their own needs, challenging restrictions and outmaneuvering their detractors in the process.

Expansive and groundbreaking, Nature Unfurled examines the links between Asian American and environmental history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. With provocative essays on topics such as health in urban Chinatowns, Japanese oysters on Washington tidelands, American Indian and Japanese American experiences at the Leupp boarding school and isolation center, Southeast Asian community gardens, and contemporary Asian American outdoor recreation, this collection underscores the vibrancy of the field of Asian American environmental history.

Author Biography

Connie Y. Chiang is a professor of history and environmental studies at Bowdoin College. She is author of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast and Nature behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. Contributors: Katharine Achacoso, Connie Y. Chiang, Yesenia Navarrete Hunter, Hana Maruyama, Christine Peralta, JoAnna Poblete, Michael Menor Salgarolo, Tamara Venit Shelton, Ashanti Shih, Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Cecilia M. Tsu, Davina Two Bears, Sarah D. Wald, and Kathleen Whalen

Number of Pages: 290
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.99 x 6.17 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: December 31, 2024

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