Title Vanishing America : species extinction, racial peril, and the origins of conservation / Miles A. Powell

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: A Nation's Park, Containing Man and Beast -- 1. Surviving Progress -- 2. Preserving the Frontier -- 3. A Line of Unbroken Descent -- 4. The Last of Her Tribe -- 5. Dead of Its Own Too-Much -- Epilogue: De-Extinction -- Notes --Acknowledgments -- Index Summary Vanishing America examines discourses of extinction - of species and of peoples - to identify key transitions in American environmental and racial thought between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. By 1900 many whites had begun to see themselves as an imperiled race and increasingly identified with the nation's dwindling wildlife. Fearing they would share Indians' anticipated extinction, elite environmental pundits developed racially-charged preservationist arguments that influenced the development of scientific racism, eugenics, immigration restriction, and population control, and which still inform the modern environmental movement. Vanishing America suggests that a long history of drawing connections between environmental health and the mental and physical wellbeing of white Americans has helped create an enduring divide between the nation's environmental movement, on the one hand, and the nation's poor people and nonwhite races on the other -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-240) and index Notes In English online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 28, 2020) Subject Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Extinction (Biology) -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. HISTORY / United States / General Environmentalism Racism United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674972957 0674972953 0674972937 9780674972933

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