Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. It brings to the fore what editors Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams describe as the "interdisciplinary and activist traditions of ethnic studies" to questions about race and the environment. They select "racial ecologies" as both a title and framingin ordr to capture a sense of the embedded identities and unique positionalities that are tied to environments and ecosystems in transition. Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies.