{"product_id":"the-elsewhere-is-black-marisa-solomon-9781478032465","title":"The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life","description":"In \u003cem\u003eThe Elsewhere Is Black\u003c\/em\u003e, 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marisa Solomon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478032464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478032465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Marisa Solomon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867273449727,"sku":"9781478032465","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa185b1b-c42b-4e0f-9758-a31decbd40a2.jpg?v=1747454342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-elsewhere-is-black-marisa-solomon-9781478032465","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}