Date of Award
Spring 4-29-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Michael Marx
Second Advisor
Mason Stokes
Abstract
This Capstone won Skidmore's Racial Justice Student Award. An analysis of literature, American history, and pop culture, Wilderness Is Not a Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used as a Form of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History uses a sociological lens to approach the inherent relationship between racism and wilderness.
Recommended Citation
Irrera, Dorothy, "Wilderness Is Not a Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used as a Form of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History" (2022). English Honors Theses. 65.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/eng_stu_schol/65
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