By Rahawa Haile In this essay from Outside Magazine, Rahawa Haile reflects on the experience of hiking the Appalachian trail as a queer black woman. Her essay covers questions of race and politics, as well as evocatively describing her own rich relationship to the natural world. It’s the spring of 2016, and I’m ten miles … More Going It Alone
by W.E.B. DuBois Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is an autobiography by W.E.B. DuBois which weaves togethers essays, personal anecdotes, and spiritual reflection to consider the question of labor and race in the United States. In the particular passage, DuBois reflects on the beauty of Bar Harbor, ME (a national park that was often … More Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
By Brian McCammack in “EdgeEffects” In this essay, McCammack consider’s the place of DuBois environmental writing in the greater cannon of nature-writers. He argues the need for DuBois’ writing to be validated: that his writing covers many of the same themes and questions as Muir and Thoreau and, like these other authors, considers the importance … More W. E. B. DuBois and the American Environment
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