Tag: American Studies
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American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
in PodcastsAlexander Menrisky speaks with Sarah Jaquette Ray about his recent book on the role of nonpartisan, everyday ecofascism in the U.S., from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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Beyond the “Murder Hornet” Panic
in CommentaryRemember murder hornets? Samuel Klee tells their story a different way—with less panic and more attention to settler-colonial plantation ecologies.
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Financing American Inequality: A Conversation with Paige Glotzer
in PodcastsHistorian Paige Glotzer discusses the segregated suburbs and what the history of Baltimore’s Roland Park Company has to do with today’s inequality.
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Plant Monsters Turn Normal Upside Down
in EssaysJulia Dauer argues that the plant monsters from the Netflix series Stranger Things share roots with 18th-century colonial terror of botanical powers. Unruly vegetation from the Upside Down calls for a wholesale reevaluation of normal in the contemporary US.
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Whose Utopia? American Ecofascism Since the 1880s
in EssaysA 19th-century novel about a (white) women’s utopia at the center of the earth documents the long history of American eugenics and ecofascism.
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The Environmental Histories of Desire
in ReviewsGreta LaFleur’s new book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, shows how desire was produced in surprising ways alongside taxonomies of plants and racial difference in early British colonial texts.
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Earth First! and the Ethics of American Environmentalism
in ReviewsWhy were American radical environmental movements able to gain political and philosophical ground in the second half of the 20th century? Keith Woodhouse looks at this question through the history of Earth First! and its legacy today.
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Seeds as Time Capsules
in ReviewsWhen Courtney Fullilove looks inside a seed, she sees Mennonite farmers, Comanche agriculture, and Echinacea patents. Her new book, “The Profit of the Earth,” shows that the genes of a seed can narrate the history of American empire.
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Excavating the Private Sphere
in ExhibitsA photo essay of mid-century domestic relics open a window on a woman’s hard, heroic, uncelebrated life.
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From White Privilege to White Supremacy: An Illustrated Interview with Laura Pulido
in PodcastsPursuing environmental justice requires recognizing the varied forms of racism.