ENVS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sharecropping, Culture Shock, Bell Hooks
7 Nov 2017
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Thoreau - abolitionist, rights of irish workers. Why didn"t they gravitate down to us. Rebecca solnit - american writer - san francisco. Made it possible to make yellowstone national park. Political commitment, anger and still have pleasure in the world. Thoreau decided not to pay his taxes - us war on mexico was an excuse to extend slavery in the west. Goes to jail - let out on bail. Joins friends and brother to pick huckleberries. Controversial: how can we take him seriously when the minute he got out of jail he picked berries. He could do whatever he wished (like be a serious engineer), but he picked berries. Argues that the thoreau problem is his dualist perception on life. Takes revolutionary activism as a religious thing. Waiting for a revolution to come, deprive yourself until it does - but this way of being didn"t work for her.
