Lauret Savoy Co-Edits New Book

September 2002

Lauret Savoy, Associate Professor of American Studies and the Department of Earth and Environment, has just published a new book called The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Co-edited with Alison Deming, this book reconsiders the definition of American "nature writing" by emphasizing cultural perspective as a lens through which to see and experience nature, environment, and place. It includes personal essays from invited contributors (all writers of color) that reflect on human relationships with place and the natural world by examining questions and issues of gender, "race," and culture; of migration and dispossession; of inidividual and familial identity; of economic and cultural "development"; and of environmental racism and justice.