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Awards
Overview"Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize Winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize ""A major work of history that brings together African-American history and environmental studies in exciting ways."" -Davarian L. Baldwin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History Between 1915 and 1940, hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the rural South to begin new lives in the urban North. In Chicago, the black population quintupled to more than 275,000. Most historians map the integration of southern and northern black culture by looking at labor, politics, and popular culture. An award-winning environmental historian, Brian McCammack charts a different course, considering instead how black Chicagoans forged material and imaginative connections to nature. The first major history to frame the Great Migration as an environmental experience, Landscapes of Hope takes us to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as to the youth camps, vacation resorts, farms, and forests of the rural Midwest. Situated at the intersection of race and place in American history, it traces the contours of a black environmental consciousness that runs throughout the African American experience. ""Uncovers the untold history of African Americans' migration to Chicago as they constructed both material and immaterial connections to nature."" -Teona Williams, Black Perspectives ""A beautifully written, smart, painstakingly researched account that adds nuance to the growing field of African American environmental history."" -Colin Fisher, American Historical Review ""If in the South nature was associated with labor, for the inhabitants of the crowded tenements in Chicago, nature increasingly became a source of leisure."" -Reinier de Graaf, New York Review of Books" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brian McCammackPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674260375ISBN 10: 0674260376 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 03 August 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA beautifully written, smart, painstakingly researched account that adds nuance to the growing field of African American environmental history. -- Colin Fisher * American Historical Review * A major work of history that brings together African-American history and environmental studies in exciting ways. -- Davarian L. Baldwin * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * McCammack uncovers the untold history of African Americans' migration to Chicago as they constructed both material and immaterial connections to nature... His attention to the complex landscapes that African Americans navigated is compelling. -- Teona Williams * Black Perspectives * The way nature helped African-Americans endure the segregated spaces they inhabited in and around Chicago forms the subject of Landscapes of Hope...If in the South nature was associated with labor, for the inhabitants of the crowded tenements in Chicago, nature increasingly became a source of leisure. -- Reinier de Graaf * New York Review of Books * Deeply researched and beautifully written, Landscapes of Hope shows how African American migrants to Chicago experienced, adapted to, and reshaped their new world. Through a close examination of African American life in the northern metropolis, Brian McCammack reveals an urban environment that was far more rich, varied, and dynamic than we had imagined, and one that was more than a mere stage for contests over jobs, housing, and political power. Rather, he demonstrates that African Americans' efforts to claim urban space and enjoy the city's outdoor parks, beaches, playgrounds, and nature preserves formed a vital element of their larger struggle for freedom. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of <i>The Land Was Ours</i> McCammack's book provides a literal landscaping of black modernity. In doing so, it shines new light on Black Chicago, forcing us to look again at things we thought we knew so well. Landscapes of Hope brings together environmental justice and African American history in new ways, reminding us that race must be central both to our debates about environmental injustice and to our general understanding of the environment itself. -- Davarian L. Baldwin, author of <i>Chicago's New Negroes</i> A beautifully written, smart, painstakingly researched account that adds nuance to the growing field of African American environmental history. -- Colin Fisher * American Historical Review * A major work of history that brings together African-American history and environmental studies in exciting ways. -- Davarian L. Baldwin * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * McCammack uncovers the untold history of African Americans's migration to Chicago as they constructed both material and immaterial connections to nature... His attention to the complex landscapes that African Americans navigated is compelling. -- Teona Williams * Black Perspectives * The way nature helped African-Americans endure the segregated spaces they inhabited in and around Chicago forms the subject of Landscapes of Hope...If in the South nature was associated with labor, for the inhabitants of the crowded tenements in Chicago, nature increasingly became a source of leisure. -- Reinier de Graaf * New York Review of Books * Deeply researched and beautifully written, Landscapes of Hope shows how African American migrants to Chicago experienced, adapted to, and reshaped their new world. Through a close examination of African American life in the northern metropolis, Brian McCammack reveals an urban environment that was far more rich, varied, and dynamic than we had imagined, and one that was more than a mere stage for contests over jobs, housing, and political power. Rather, he demonstrates that African Americans' efforts to claim urban space and enjoy the city's outdoor parks, beaches, playgrounds, and nature preserves formed a vital element of their larger struggle for freedom. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of <i>The Land Was Ours</i> McCammack's book provides a literal landscaping of black modernity. In doing so, it shines new light on Black Chicago, forcing us to look again at things we thought we knew so well. Landscapes of Hope brings together environmental justice and African American history in new ways, reminding us that race must be central both to our debates about environmental injustice and to our general understanding of the environment itself. -- Davarian L. Baldwin, author of <i>Chicago's New Negroes</i> Author InformationBrian McCammack is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Lake Forest College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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