Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index.

How do race and nature work as terrains of power? From eighteenth-century claims that climate determined character to twentieth-century medical debates about th

Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

Takes the study of race beyond Western notions of the individual

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