Nature in literature by people who aren't white

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,230 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating β€” 158,487 ratings
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry 4.61 avg rating β€” 473 ratings
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Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary 3.90 avg rating β€” 337 ratings
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Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature
Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature 3.92 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land 4.67 avg rating β€” 509 ratings
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If You've Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You've Lost Your Way: An Introduction to American Indian Thought and Philosophy
If You've Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You've Lost Your Way: An Introduction to American Indian Thought and Philosophy 4.46 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
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As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock 4.37 avg rating β€” 2,196 ratings
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Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures
Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures 4.24 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders
Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders 4.22 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground
Keep Your Head to the Sky: Interpreting African American Home Ground 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Urban Birder
The Urban Birder 3.84 avg rating β€” 134 ratings
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No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work
No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors 4.06 avg rating β€” 956 ratings
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God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia 4.32 avg rating β€” 358 ratings
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Tree: A Life Story
Tree: A Life Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 746 ratings
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Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia 3.94 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext 4.43 avg rating β€” 235 ratings
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo 4.10 avg rating β€” 3,963 ratings
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The Lion and the Mouse
The Lion and the Mouse 4.23 avg rating β€” 24,357 ratings
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Ghetto Cowboy
Ghetto Cowboy
by: G. Neri
3.92 avg rating β€” 2,936 ratings
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Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)
Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1) 4.28 avg rating β€” 25,561 ratings
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Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating β€” 117,019 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating β€” 176,475 ratings
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In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies 4.15 avg rating β€” 77,526 ratings
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Bless Me, Ultima
Bless Me, Ultima 3.82 avg rating β€” 36,618 ratings
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Wild Is the Wind: Poems 3.91 avg rating β€” 387 ratings
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Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,044 ratings
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The Yellow House
The Yellow House 3.89 avg rating β€” 25,004 ratings
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The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones 4.07 avg rating β€” 9,774 ratings
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Black Sunlight
Black Sunlight 4.01 avg rating β€” 205 ratings
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Diving Into the Wreck
Diving Into the Wreck 4.24 avg rating β€” 9,541 ratings
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The Kingdom of This World
The Kingdom of This World 3.78 avg rating β€” 7,903 ratings
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A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat 3.88 avg rating β€” 6,514 ratings
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Weep Not, Child
Weep Not, Child 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,099 ratings
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Freshwater
Freshwater 4.01 avg rating β€” 35,608 ratings
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Oceanic
Oceanic 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,630 ratings
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Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology
Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology 4.14 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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Not Without Laughter
Not Without Laughter 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,669 ratings
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Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death #1)
Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death #1) 3.93 avg rating β€” 27,811 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns 4.20 avg rating β€” 307 ratings
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1919
1919 4.49 avg rating β€” 2,654 ratings
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements 3.93 avg rating β€” 4,244 ratings
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Dreaming in Cuban
Dreaming in Cuban 3.68 avg rating β€” 12,207 ratings
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating β€” 12,077 ratings
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The January Children
The January Children 4.52 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
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Garden, Ashes
Garden, Ashes 4.13 avg rating β€” 1,668 ratings
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Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction 3.81 avg rating β€” 472 ratings
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Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series)
Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.40 avg rating β€” 459 ratings
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Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid 4.13 avg rating β€” 748 ratings
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Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.23 avg rating β€” 3,647 ratings
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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #1)
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of OrΓ―sha, #1) 4.11 avg rating β€” 245,805 ratings
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Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 4.22 avg rating β€” 178 ratings
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Indigenous Species
Indigenous Species 3.99 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994
Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 4.10 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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New Poets of Native Nations
New Poets of Native Nations 4.40 avg rating β€” 666 ratings
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Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place 3.86 avg rating β€” 1,785 ratings
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The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) 4.01 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry 4.27 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems
Small Congregations: New and Selected Poems 4.26 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse 4.30 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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I Want to Be
I Want to Be 4.10 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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The Book of Delights: Essays
The Book of Delights: Essays
by: Ross Gay
4.14 avg rating β€” 19,401 ratings
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Bringing the Shovel Down (Pitt Poetry Series)
Bringing the Shovel Down (Pitt Poetry Series)
by: Ross Gay
4.35 avg rating β€” 496 ratings
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Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens
Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens
by: Ross Gay
4.47 avg rating β€” 179 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop 4.28 avg rating β€” 604 ratings
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The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic 4.44 avg rating β€” 438 ratings
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American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time 4.13 avg rating β€” 654 ratings
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon 4.15 avg rating β€” 9,314 ratings
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border 3.97 avg rating β€” 15,191 ratings
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There There
There There 3.98 avg rating β€” 214,319 ratings
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems 4.56 avg rating β€” 478 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating β€” 71,444 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,670 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 145,382 ratings
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Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World 3.91 avg rating β€” 555 ratings
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Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds 3.78 avg rating β€” 5,253 ratings
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Snow Country
Snow Country 3.57 avg rating β€” 38,922 ratings
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Hum (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Hum (ALA Notable Books for Adults) 4.32 avg rating β€” 784 ratings
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
Belonging: A Culture of Place 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,477 ratings
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The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World 4.10 avg rating β€” 190 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating β€” 386,305 ratings
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So Long a Letter
So Long a Letter 3.99 avg rating β€” 11,640 ratings
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Nature Poem
Nature Poem 4.25 avg rating β€” 3,280 ratings
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Electric Arches
Electric Arches 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,560 ratings
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Winter in the Blood
Winter in the Blood 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,564 ratings
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Wildness: Relations of People and Place
Wildness: Relations of People and Place 4.18 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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Mules and Men
Mules and Men 4.10 avg rating β€” 6,334 ratings
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Seraph on the Suwanee
Seraph on the Suwanee 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,045 ratings
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My Garden
My Garden 3.71 avg rating β€” 800 ratings
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Gorilla, My Love
Gorilla, My Love 4.11 avg rating β€” 2,311 ratings
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Ghost Summer
Ghost Summer 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,341 ratings
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Eight Men
Eight Men 3.98 avg rating β€” 849 ratings
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House Made of Dawn
House Made of Dawn 3.62 avg rating β€” 10,239 ratings
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An African in Greenland
An African in Greenland 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,992 ratings
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Black Rain
Black Rain 3.99 avg rating β€” 4,436 ratings
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A Small Story about the Sky
A Small Story about the Sky 3.98 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
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Camellia Street
Camellia Street 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,840 ratings
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail 4.56 avg rating β€” 2,092 ratings
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Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,224 ratings
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