Latinx Environmentalisms

Place, Justice, and the Decolonial

Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vazquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Sarah Jaquette Ray, Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vazquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Sarah Jaquette Ray

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781439916674, 9781439916667
• eBook ISBN: 9781439916681
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and contributors to Latinx Environmentalisms map the ways Latinx cultural texts integrate environmental concerns with questions of social and political justice. 

Original interviews with creative writers, including Cherríe Moraga, Helena María Viramontes, and Héctor Tobar, as well as new essays by noted scholars of Latinx literature and culture, show how Latinx authors and cultural producers express environmental concerns in their work. These chapters, which focus on film, visual art, and literature—and engage in fields such as disability studies, animal studies, and queer studies—emphasize the role of racial capitalism in shaping human relationships to the more-than-human world and reveal a vibrant tradition of Latinx decolonial environmentalism.

Latinx Environmentalisms accounts for the ways Latinx cultures are environmental, but often do not assume the mantle of "environmentalism."

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword / Laura Pulido
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Why Latinx Environmentalisms? / Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray
• Part I. Place: Racial Capital and the Production of Place
• Part II. Justice: Expanding Environmentalism
• Part III. The Decolonial: Alternative Kinships and Epistemologies of Futurity
• Afterword: What Is Absent; Fields, Futures, and Latinx Environmentalisms / Stacy Alaimo
• Contributors
• Index