The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and heartbreak, hope and mystery. With writing from Jamaica Kincaid on the fallacies of national myths, Yusef Komunyakaa connecting the toxic legacy of his hometown, Bogalusa, LA, to a blind faith in capitalism, and bell hooks relating the quashing of multiculturalism to the destruction of nature that is considered "unpredictable" — amongst more than 35 other examinations of the relationship between culture and nature — this collection points toward the trouble of ignoring our cultural heritage, but also reveals how opening our eyes and our minds might provide a more livable future. The Colors of Nature comes in four alternating-color covers: red, yellow, green, and blue.

• Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
• Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
• Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
• American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (LOA #182) (Library of America)
• The Myth of Human Supremacy
• Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
• Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species (The MIT Press)
• The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors
• Navigating Environmental Attitudes