Through Darkwater, Du Bois analyzes how natural beauty gave rise to the combination of anti-racist protest. He imports in this work and highlight its potential contribution to a better understanding of the intersection of race and colonialism in the eco-critical tradition. It suggests that Du Bois’s explorations of the double environments of (black) Jim Crow and (white) national parks or from shadows of hill to Veil, from pastoral to urban in the text foreground practices of segregation across both natural and urban spaces. Du Bois also uses veil as imagery. For Du Bois, the veil primarily refers to three things. First, the veil suggests to the literal darker skin of blacks, which is a physical demarcation of difference. Secondly, the veil
