The Elsewhere Is Black

Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Marisa Solomon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3246-5 (ISBN)

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Tracing the flow of trash and waste from Brooklyn’s poor Black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’s Tidewater, Marisa Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of racial capitalism.

In The Elsewhere Is Black, Marisa Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Tracing the flow of trash and waste across Black spaces, from Brooklyn’s historically Black Bedford-Stuyvesant to the post-plantation towns of Virginia’s Tidewater, Solomon contends that waste infrastructures concentrate environmental risk in an elsewhere that is routinely Black. Solomon emphasizes that ecological violence is a form of racialized heteropatriarchal environmental control that upholds whiteness as a propertied way of life and criminalizes Black survival. As she points to acute sites of toxicity, Solomon theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land and Black and more-than-human life to reveal how the risks of poisoning, police violence, dispossession, and poverty hold Black life captive. Locating Black survival as site from which alternative eco-political imaginations spring, she foregrounds how people live and dream amidst waste’s daily accumulation. Solomon opens new ecological horizons to ask: What forms of environmentalism emerge when Black un/freedom has never been distant from waste?

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award

Marisa Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Introducing the Elsewhere 1
Flow 24
1. Toxic Culture 30
Infrastructure 59
2. Becoming Fill 65
Surplus 92
3. Revisions from Elsewhere 98
Disposal 133
4. Black Refractions 137
Junk 155
Conclusions: Fictions of Fabulous/Fabulative Ethnography 158
Notes 179
Bibliography 209
Index 239

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2025
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3246-4 / 1478032464
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3246-5 / 9781478032465
Zustand	Neuware