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The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life book cover by Marisa Solomon
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The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

by Marisa Solomon

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Hardcover · 272 pages Duke University Press · 2025

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The Elsewhere Is Black

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 a 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?

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Marisa Solomon
Format
Hardcover
Published
Sep 30, 2025
ISBN-13
9781478029137
ISBN-10
1478029137
Pages
272
Carton quantity
22 copies
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