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The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marisa SolomonPublish date:9/30/2025Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032465ISBN-10:1478032464UPC:9781478032465Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Science (see also ChemistryBook Topic:American, Environmental)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC1P6VK2FX
In The Elsewhere Is Black, Marisa Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Tracing the flow of trash and waste across Black spaces, from Brooklyn's historically Black Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia's Tidewater, Solomon contends that waste infrastructures concentrate environmental risk in an elsewhere that is routinely Black. Solomon emphasizes that ecological violence is a form of racialized heteropatriarchal environmental control that upholds whiteness as a propertied way of life and criminalizes Black survival. As she points to acute sites of toxicity, Solomon theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land and Black and more-than-human life to reveal how the risks of poisoning, police violence, dispossession, and poverty hold Black life captive. Locating Black survival as a site from which alternative eco-political imaginations spring, she foregrounds how people live and dream amidst waste's daily accumulation. Solomon opens new ecological horizons to ask: What forms of environmentalism emerge when Black un/freedom has never been distant from waste?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478032465ISBN-10:1478032464UPC:9781478032465Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Environmental Science (see also ChemistryBook Topic:American, Environmental)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7915Product ID:SC1P6VK2FX
Marisa Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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