[NIS_GS:] CFP: Race, Technology and the Environment
From: Sylvia Hood Washington <s-washington4@northwestern.edu>
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
A highly regarded university press has expressed an interest in the development of an anthology on Race, Technology and the Environment (REVTech). The REVTech anthology would contain a maximum of twenty original essays (6000 to 7000 words per essay) focused on North American
(i.e. USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean) experiences approximately framed between 1850 to 2000. Race for this anthology is broadly defined and includes but is not limited to American communities of African, Arab, Asian, Latino, Native American and European (particularly those who have long term histories of environmental marginalization) descent. The goal of the REVTech anthology is to make a rigorous attempt to provide answers to the following questions:

How have technologies transformed the lived environment of racial/ethnic minority communities?

How have racial/ethnic minorities used, adapted and or /taken back technologies to make them their own for environmental purposes or to alter the environmental conditions of their communities?

How have racial/ethnic minorities had different access to particular technologies, and what has that meant for their lived environment?

How would the combined history of technology and environmental history really look if it took into consideration the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities when placed at the center of the history.

The REVTech anthology as it is currently envisioned would include but not be limited to the following 9 themes:

1. Race, Transportation Technologies and the Environment --- cars (trains, airplanes) roles in transforming the environmental landscapes of racial/ethnic communities(noise and particulate
pollution) -- how racial and ethnic communities utilized transportation technologies to alter and or escape marginalized environments.
2. Race, Air Purification Technologies and the Environment --- air pollution control devices (by industries) and their ecological and public health impacts on these communities --- accessibility/utilization of in-door and in-car technologies and the impact on environmental health
3. Race, Waste Water and Water Quality Technologies and the Environment --- municipal sanitation technologies and their ecological and public health impacts on communities of color and ethnic communities --- industrial effluent treatment technologies and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities
4. Race, Water Control Technologies and the Environment --- dams and levee technologies and their impact on communities of color and the poor.
5. Race, Solid Waste Management Technologies and the Environment --- incinerators and their ecological and public health impacts on communities of color and ethnic communities --- landfills and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities --- recycling technologies and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities
6. Race, Energy (Power) Generation Technologies and the Environment --- fossil fuel fired plants and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities --- oil production technologies and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities --- nuclear plants and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities ---- solar/photovoltaic and alternative energy technologies
7. Race, Space Technology and the Environment --- space debris and their impact on communities of color and ethnic communities --- history of NASA and its impact on rural and or indigenous
communities
8. Race, Environment and Communication (Internet, TV and Radio) Technologies
--- communication technologies and their impact on environmental activism and environmental literacy.
9. Race, Environment and Invention -- minority and ethnic inventors who have created or contributed to the development of environmental and pollution prevention technologies.

Anyone interested in contributing an original essay to this volume should send a 500 word abstract and updated CV by April 22, 2006 to:
Sylvia Hood Washington, MSE, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Adjunct Professor of History
University of Maryland, University College
_s-washington4@northwestern.edu_
_DrSWashUMUC@aol.com_
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