"The Elsewhere is Black considers the durability of racism and Black relationships with ecological waste through a consideration of New York Citys trash and its transits through the Eastern Seaboard to Tidewater Virginia. This movement is emblematic of toxicitys movement more generally through soil and bodies, the placement of landfills, waste infrastructure, and the technocratic planning and management of Black life and death. The book emphasizes that propertys ecological violence is a form of racialized environmental control. More than pointing to acute sites of toxicity, Marisa Solomon theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land, Black and more-than-human life to reveal how Black life is held captive by multiple forms of risk: the risk of poisoning, the risk of police violence, the risk of dispossession, the risks of poverty. It also gives lie to the common image of Black life as existing in an urban environment outside of nature-social relations while also being itself naturalized. In this construction, Blackness operates as waste does-an excess of urban life that is tolerated but policed. Attentive to the ways coloniality and anti-blackness are sedimented into the landscape, Solomon focuses on how Black improvisation with wastes form and meaning upend environmental thinking-including the raced, classed, and gendered stewards to whom the earth supposedly belongs"--.