"In the spirit of previous endeavors to convene Africa and its diaspora around urgent questions besetting black life, Black Environmentalisms gathers African and African diaspora scholars around the question of global ecological crisis. Forwarding the notion of "black environmentalisms," the essays take up the unique environmental perspectives, practices, and conditions of the one human ontologically caught within the modern worlds constitutive subjection of the nonhuman. In this fundamental way, black environmentalisms emerge from a radical alignment with, rather than paternalistic conservation of, the nonhuman natural world. This turn to black environmentalisms interrupts the universalizing tendency of environmental criticism that not only lays the responsibility for ecological crisis at the carbon footprint of an undifferentiated humanity but further elides humanitys uneven vulnerabilities to climate change. But if the conception of environmental crisis as a broadly human issue ironically obscures more than it reveals about earths changing climate, this volume proposes that ecological crisis may nevertheless be fruitfully conceived as a broadly Black issue"-- Provided by publisher.