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