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Luke Church uploaded W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright: Toward an Ecocriticism of Color to
Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 9 years, 4 months ago This is a piece published in Callaloo in 2006 which aims to open ecocritical discourse towards Black American writers. Hicks is particularly interested in how reading Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Richard Wright reframes ecocriticism beyond its usual canon of writers (Thoreau, Muir, etc.) and how this helps to redefine the concept of “Nature” to be more inclusive of various relationships to environment. I feel as though work in this area has progressed a lot since this article was written, but it’s work with Du Bois is of great interest. I accessed this through JSTOR.
