READINGS | To Know Our Land

Books

Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain. Houghton, Mifflin, 1903

Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Harvard UP, 2003.

Francisco Cantú. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. Riverhead Books, 2019.

Alison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret E. Savoy, eds. The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. Milkweed, 2011.

Sylviane A. Diouf, Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. NYU Press, 2014.

Deborah D. Douglas, Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events that Made the Movement. Avalon, 2021.

Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, UNC Press 2014.

Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll, eds. "To Love the Wind and the Rain": African Americans and Environmental History. U of Pittsburg Press, 2006.

Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape. Penguin, 2021.

J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. Milkwood Editions, 2016.

Charles G. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the America Before Columbus. Vintage, 2006.

David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm. Harper Collins, 1995.

M. R. Montgomery, Many Rivers to Cross: Of Good Running Water, Native Trout, and the Remains of Wilderness. Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2019.

Jennifer Raff, Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas. Twelve, 2022.

Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. Knopf Doubleday, 2021.

Paul Chaat Smith. Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, U of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Paul Theroux, Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads. Mariner Books, 2015.

David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 2019 to the Present. Little, Brown 2019.

Tom Wessels, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England. Countryman Press, 1997.

Gary Younge, No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey through the American South. UP of Mississippi, 2002.

Articles

Kiese Makeba Lamon, Mississippi: A Poem, in Days, in 2021 Best of American Travel Writing, originally published in Vanity Fair.

N. Scott Momaday, A First American Views His Land, National Geographic, 1976. In: A Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages, 1997.

Intan Paramaditha, “On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel,” in 2021 Best of American Travel Writing, originally published in Literary Hub

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination. In Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, Robert Finch and John Elder, eds, Norton, 2002.

David Treuer, Return the National Parks to the Tribes. The Atlantic, May, 2021.

Richard White, Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living? In Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. William Cronon, ed. Norton, 1996.