Stewards of the Land by Stevie Ruiz - 9781469693347

Stewards of the LandRace and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West\nAuthor(s): Stevie Ruiz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469693347, 978-1469693347\nSynopsis\nThe history of the environmental movementfrom environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth centuryhas often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern California berry fields to Japanese American concentration camps, and from Chinese cooks in national parks to Chicano Civilian Conservation Corps workers, Ruiz traces how the racialized labor and environmental knowledge of Asian migrants and Chicana/o communities built the material foundations of modern environmentalism.     \n   &.