“Ecology of the Color Line: Race and Nature in American Literature, 1895-1941” reimagines many literary genres and critical disputes traditionally focalized through problematics of race and politics: the Washington-Du Bois debates on racial uplift, New Negro cultural nationalism, the Great Migration narrative, black Marxism, and ethnic proletarian literature. ![]() In Du Boisian spirit, my project explores how the color line and what I call the ecological line-the line that runs between humans and their environment-intersect. Du Bois prophesied that the “problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line.” A hundred years later, ecological crises join racial crises as perhaps the emergent problems of the twenty-first century. In the Forethought to The Souls of Black Folk, W. ![]() ![]() Title Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941 Author(s) Claborn, John Date of Publication Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis) Rothberg, Michael Doctoral Committee Chair(s)ĭepartment of Study English Discipline English Degree Granting Institution University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Degree Name Ph.D.
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