Ian Baucom puts black studies into conversation with climate change, outlining how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene and vice versa.

Acknowledgments  ix
1. Of Forces and Forcings  1
2. History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method  35
3. The View from the Shore  73
Coda. The Youngest Day  110
Notes  119
Bibliography  131
Index  137
 

Ian Baucom is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History and coeditor of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, both also published by Duke University Press.