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My work is that of conservation
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely-and reductively-known as the African American scientist who developed a wide variety of uses for the peanut. Carver had a truly prolific career dedicated to studying the ways in which people ought to interact with the natural world, yet much of his work has been largely forgotten. Hersey rectifies this by tracing the evolution of Carver's agricultural and environmental thought starting with his childhood in Missouri and Kansas and his education at the Iowa Agricultural College. Carver's environmental vision came into focus when he moved to the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama, where his sensibilities and training collided with the denuded agrosystems, deep poverty, and institutional racism of the Black Belt. It was there that Carver realized his most profound agricultural thinking, as his efforts to improve the lot of the area's poorest farmers forced him to adjust his conception of scientific agriculture. Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably \"greener\" than is often thought today. My Work Is That of Conservation uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.
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Actional Poetics - ASH SHE HE
Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensive visual documentation of his performative practice drawn extensively from his archival resources, with essays from leading national and international scholars in the field. 350 colour illustrations. New Books Network (New Books in Art) interview with Sandra Johnston, Brian Patterson and Alastair MacLennan.
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Settler Aesthetics
In Settler Aesthetics , an analysis of renowned director
Terrence Malick's 2005 film, The New World , Mishuana
Goeman examines the continuity of imperialist exceptionalism and
settler-colonial aesthetics. The story of Pocahontas has thrived
for centuries as a cover for settler-colonial erasure, destruction,
and violence against Native peoples, and Native women in
particular. Since the romanticized story of the encounter and
relationship between Pocahontas and Captain John Smith was first
published, it has imprinted a whitewashed historical memory into
the minds of Americans. As one of the most enduring tropes of
imperialist nostalgia in world history, Renaissance European
invasions of Indigenous lands by settlers trades in a falsified
\"civilizational discourse\" that has been a focus in literature for
centuries and in films since their inception. Ironically, Malick
himself was a symbol of the New Hollywood in his early career, but
with The New World he created a film that serves as a
buttress for racial capitalism in the Americas. Focusing on settler
structures, the setup of regimes of power, sexual violence and the
gendering of colonialism, and the sustainability of colonialism and
empires, Goeman masterfully peels away the visual layers of settler
logics in The New World , creating a language in Native
American and Indigenous studies for interpreting visual media.
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Alaska Native Resilience
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion,
relocation, and land reclamation The US government
justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense
against Japan's invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally
served to advance colonial expansion in relation to the
geographically and culturally diverse Indigenous communities
affected. Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this
history, Holly Miowak Guise draws on a wealth of oral histories and
interviews with Indigenous elders to explore the multidimensional
relationship between Alaska Natives and the US military during the
Pacific War. The forced relocation and internment of Unangax̂ in
1942 proved a harbinger of Indigenous loss and suffering in World
War II Alaska. Violence against Native women, assimilation and Jim
Crow segregation, and discrimination against Native servicemen
followed the colonial blueprint. Yet Alaska Native peoples took
steps to enact their sovereignty and restore equilibrium to their
lives by resisting violence and disrupting attempts at US control.
Their subversive actions altered the colonial structures imposed
upon them by maintaining Indigenous spaces and asserting
sovereignty over their homelands. A multifaceted challenge to
conventional histories, Alaska Native Resilience shares
the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across Alaska to reveal
long-overlooked demonstrations of Native opposition to
colonialism.
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