| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Haunted by Waters: A Journey through Race and Place in the American West. American Land and Life Series. By Robert T. Hayashi. Foreword by Wayne Franklin. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007. xiv + 196 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Haunted by Waters, represents Robert Hayashi's efforts to explore "environmental history in relation to the formation of racial identity." He argues that "ideas about environment are part of the ideological and material framework of [the process of creating racial identity] and, moreover ... ideas about race and place have been intertwined ... in the development of the West" (p. 2). Hayashi's geographic focus is the State of Idaho, a state where he is drawn not only because of his family's connection to the Minidoka internment camp, but because of his interest in fishing the state's rivers. Hayashi seeks to demonstrate implicitly, if not explicitly, that the "land teaches that conditions are local, that identities are forms of adaptation, and thus, the universal mythologies are always suspect" (p. 5).

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