Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Why Latinx Environmentalisms? | SARAH D. WALD, DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ, PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA, AND SARAH JAQUETTE RAY
PART I Place: Racial Capital and the Production of Place
2. Greenwashing the White Savior: Cancer Clusters, Supercrips, and McFarland, USA | JULIE AVRIL MINICH
3. The National Park Foundation’s “American Latino Expedition”: Consumer Citizenship as Pathway to Multicultural National Belonging | SARAH D. WALD
4. “A Story Is a Physical Space”: An Interview with Héctor Tobar | SHANE HALL
5. Speculative Futurity and the Eco-cultural Politics of Lunar Braceros: 2125–2148 | CHRISTOPHER PERREIRA
6. Sun Ma(i)d: Art, Activism, and Environment in Ester Hernández’s Central Valley | JENNIFER GARCIA PEACOCK
7. “An Organic Being in the Middle of Chicago”: An Interview with Ana Castillo | PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA AND SARAH D. WALD
PART II Justice: Expanding Environmentalism
8. Environmental Justice and the Ecological Other in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God | SARAH JAQUETTE RAY
9. “We Carry Our Environments within Ourselves”: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes | DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ, SARAH D. WALD, AND PAULA M. L. MOYA
10. “Between Water and Song”: Maria Melendez and the Contours of Contemporary Latinx Ecopoetry | RANDY ONTIVEROS
11. “Justice Is a Living Organism”: An Interview with Lucha Corpi | GABRIELA NUÑEZ
PART III The Decolonial: Alternative Kinships and Epistemologies of Futurity
12. Memory, Space, and Gentrification: The Legacies of the Young Lords and Urban Decolonial Environmentalism in Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams | DAVID J. V.ZQUEZ
13. Postcards from the Edges of Haiti: The Latinx Ecocriticism of Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness | YLCE IRIZARRY
14. “Against the Sorrowful and Infinite Solitude”: Environmental Consciousness and Streetwalker Theorizing in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them | PAULA M. L. MOYA
15. Oedipal Wrecks: Queer Animal Ecologies in Justin Torres’s We the Animals | RICHARD T. RODRÍGUEZ
16. “The Body Knows and the Land Has Memory”: An Interview with Cherríe Moraga | PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA
Afterword: What Is Absent; Fields, Futures, and Latinx Environmentalisms | STACY ALAIMO
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