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  • Chapter 13 - Leisure over Labor: Latino Outdoors and the Production of a Latinx Outdoor Recreation Identity

  • from Part III - Environmental Spaces, Environmental Methods
  • Edited by Sarah Ensor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment
    Published online:
    10 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 175-188

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses efforts to increase racial and ethnic diversity on US public lands and in US outdoor recreation through a case study of the organization Latino Outdoors. It argues that Latino Outdoors works to upend the exclusion of Latinx peoples from outdoor recreation and public lands through constructing and disseminating a Latinx Outdoor Recreation Identity. In doing so, Latino Outdoors disrupts a US cultural logic which incorporates the labor of Latinx peoples while denying their substantive citizenship as well as their political and ecological belonging. In contrast to legacies of Latinx outdoor labor, Latino Outdoors embraces Latinx leisure, and specifically Latinx outdoor leisure. Furthermore, the organization emphasizes historical forms of Latinx environmental knowledge, and thus environmental belonging. Latino Outdoors creates new forms of Latinx environmental belonging founded on leisure rather than labor. These forms of environmental belonging operate within Latino Outdoors as a proxy for political belonging and the grounds for political action.