Stewards of the land : race and reclaiming environmental labor in the American West / Stevie Ruiz.

Author/creator Ruiz, Stevie author.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2026]
Descriptionxiv, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Environmental management--Social aspects. --West (U.S.).
Environmentalism--West (U.S.). --History. --20th century.
Land use--Environmental aspects. --West (U.S.).
Asian Americans--West (U.S.). --Social conditions. --20th century.
Indians of North America--West (U.S.). --Social conditions. --20th century.
Mexican Americans--West (U.S.). --Social conditions. --20th century.
Asian Americans--Case studies.
Indians of North America--Case studies.
Mexican Americans--Case studies.
West (U.S.)--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

SeriesJustice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics. http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/67a2fd40-bf33-fd0b-ad25-a5650ab9e121 ^A1147248
Contents Stewards of the land: race and reclaiming environmental labor in the American West -- Migrant hospitality in the creation of the Outdoors Movement -- Contesting legal borderlands: policing insubordinate spaces in Imperial County's farm worker communities, 1933-1940 -- Camp Chicano: the racialization of the greal outdoors in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Infrastructure schemes: labor, logistics, and Japanese American incarceration at the Colorado River Indian Reservation, 1942-1945 -- The National Land for People movement and Chicana/o environmental imagery.
Abstract "The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern California berry fields to Japanese American concentration camps, and from Chinese cooks in national parks to Chicano Civilian Conservation Corps workers, Ruiz traces how the racialized labor and environmental knowledge of Asian migrants and Chicana/o communities built the material foundations of modern environmentalism.Spanning from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s, Stewards of the Land argues that environmental justice was never just a reaction to pollution in the 1970s but has a much longer history tied to land theft, labor exploitation, and the everyday struggles of frontline communities to live and work with dignity. Drawing from comparative ethnic studies, archival research, and a commitment to decolonial praxis, Ruiz recovers the stories of those who labored-often invisibly-to build, maintain and reimagine environmental space in the American West"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781469693392
LCCN 2025045094
ISBN9781469693347 hardcover
ISBN1469693348 hardcover
ISBN9781469693354 paperback
ISBN1469693356 paperback
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book
Standard identifier# CIPO000353737

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