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In six well-crafted chapters, with extensive endnotes, Finney (Univ. of California at Berkeley) presents the myriad circumstances inhibiting many African Americans' engagement with the natural world and pursuant environmental movements. By examining the complexities from historic, societal, and personal perspectives, the author illuminates the causes and nature of barriers to this community's environmental engagement. The text begins with a look into land access granted to specific groups of immigrants as juxtaposed against the experience of freed slaves, then travels through history to the formation of an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More