| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 257 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1516-2.)

In this fluently and carefully argued book Kimberly K. Smith begins with the recognition that there is no substantial body of African American expression devoted primarily to the topics normally categorized as central to the history of environmental thinking. There is little on wilderness and other natural phenomena and their protection, or on the efforts to establish national and state policies both to conserve them and to make them accessible. Instead, she makes her subject the ways African Americans developed and integrated the environmental implications of their thought about the character of, and struggle against, racial injustice and their philosophies for overcoming it into a distinctive contribution to a "conversation" with white thinkers. The result broadens our sense of what constitutes environmental thought historically and clarifies the foundations of black aspirations and policy prescriptions in relation to land, space, and urban amenities at different historical moments.

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