The colors of nature : culture, identity, and the natural world /

The colors of nature : culture, identity, and the natural world / edited by Alison H. Deming and Lauret E. Savoy.

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"From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in today's world is reflected in our richly various stories--stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. F...

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Other Authors: Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-, Savoy, Lauret E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2011.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Nature.
Table of Contents:
  • Widening the frame / Lauret E. Savoy and Alison H. Deming
  • Return. Birth witness / Ofelia Zepeda
  • In history / Jamaica Kincaid
  • Tales from a black girl on fire, or why I hate to walk outside and see things burning / Camille T. Dungy
  • Crossing boundaries / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
  • Working in a region of lost names / Fred Arroyo
  • Notes on the New World / Faith Adiele
  • Invoking the ancestors / Aileen Suzara
  • Hope and feathers : a crisis in birder identification / J. Drew Lanham
  • Witness. Confronting environmental racism in the twenty-first century / Robert D. Bullard
  • 70117 / A.J. Verdelle
  • Dark waters / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Mujere de Maíz : women, corn, and free trade in the Americas / Maria Melendez
  • Hazardous cargo / Ray Gonzalez
  • Silent parrot blues / Al Young
  • The art gallery / Elmaz Abinader
  • Touching on skin / Kimiko Hahn
  • Encounter. The thinking men / Nikky Finney
  • Learning the grammar of animacy / Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Listening for the ancient tones, watching for sign, tasting for the mountain thyme / Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Earthbound : on solid ground / bell hooks
  • This weight of small bodies / Kimberly M. Blaeser
  • Sharing breath : some links between land, plants, and people / Enrique Salmon
  • Burning the shelter / Louis Owens
  • At the end of Ridge Road : from a nature journal / Joseph Bruchac
  • Praise. Reclaiming ourselves, reclaiming America / Francisco X. Alarcón
  • A tapestry of browns and greens / Nalini Nadkarni
  • Porphyrin rings / Jennifer Oladipo
  • Becoming Métis / Melissa Nelson
  • In the valley of its saying / Debra Kang Dean
  • Tarsenna's defiance garden in which I love to spit / Thylias Moss
  • Ke au Lono i Kaho'olawe, ho'i = The era of Lono at Kaho'olawe, returned / Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele
  • Belonging to the land / David Mas Masumoto.

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