Weeks Two & Three Reading
Week two (January 26 & 28): What is “Nature” or “Wilderness”?: It Matters What Stories Tell Stories
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, “Introduction: This Land” Download “Introduction: This Land”
- Terry Tempest Williams, “America’s National Parks: By Definition.” Download “America’s National Parks: By Definition.”
- The Wilderness Act of 1964 (Links to an external site.)
- Scroll down and click on “Wilderness Act: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1981/law-policy.htm
- NPS web pages on:
- “Wilderness.” Available at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/wilderness/index.htm Links to an external site.
- (Links to an external siteAnd “Wilderness Character.” Available at: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1981/wilderness-character.htm
Week Three (February 2 & 4): It Matters Whose Stories Tell Stories
- Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/06/walking/304674/ (Links to an external site.)
- Maria Melendez, “Mujeres de Maíz” Download “Mujeres de Maíz”
- Kimberly M. Blaeser, “This Weight of Small Bodies” Download “This Weight of Small Bodies”
- Camille Dungy, “Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning” Download “Tales From a Black Girl on Fire, or Why I Hate to Walk Outside and See Things Burning”
- Carolyn Finney, “Bamboozled” in Black Faces, White Spaces
- Access through library with CalNet ID: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b21352965~S1
- Alison Kafer, “Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability”
- Access through library with CalNet ID: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b21465210~S1
Recommended:
- Carolyn Finney, “Jungle Fever” in Black Faces, White Spaces
- Access through library with CalNet ID: http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b21352965~S1
- Interview with Carolyn Finney about her book
- Carolyn Finney’s website