Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation /
Powell, Miles A., 1981-
Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation / Miles A. Powell - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- 1. Surviving Progress -- 2. Preserving the Frontier -- 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes --Acknowledgments -- Index
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 twentieth centuries. By 1900 many whites had begun to see themselves as an imperiled race and increasingly identified with the nation's dwindling wildlife. Fearing they would share Indians' anticipated extinction, elite environmental pundits developed racially-charged preservationist arguments that influenced the development of scientific racism, eugenics, immigration restriction, and population control, and which still inform the modern environmental movement. Vanishing America suggests that a long history of drawing connections between environmental health and the mental and physical wellbeing of white Americans has helped create an enduring divide between the nation's environmental movement, on the one hand, and the nation's poor people and nonwhite races on the other --
9780674972957 9780674972933
Environmentalism--History--United States--19th century.
Environmentalism--History--United States--20th century.
Extinction (Biology)--Social aspects--History.--United States
Racism--History--United States--19th century.
Racism--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
GE197 / .V365 2016
Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation / Miles A. Powell - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- 1. Surviving Progress -- 2. Preserving the Frontier -- 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes --Acknowledgments -- Index
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 twentieth centuries. By 1900 many whites had begun to see themselves as an imperiled race and increasingly identified with the nation's dwindling wildlife. Fearing they would share Indians' anticipated extinction, elite environmental pundits developed racially-charged preservationist arguments that influenced the development of scientific racism, eugenics, immigration restriction, and population control, and which still inform the modern environmental movement. Vanishing America suggests that a long history of drawing connections between environmental health and the mental and physical wellbeing of white Americans has helped create an enduring divide between the nation's environmental movement, on the one hand, and the nation's poor people and nonwhite races on the other --
9780674972957 9780674972933
Environmentalism--History--United States--19th century.
Environmentalism--History--United States--20th century.
Extinction (Biology)--Social aspects--History.--United States
Racism--History--United States--19th century.
Racism--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
GE197 / .V365 2016