Karen Tei Yamashita

America presents itself as a land of freedom and equality, allowing many Americans to believe this as truth, even while certain groups have been ignored and left out of opportunities for achievement. This disregard of racial oppression in America has prevailed and greatly influenced American writers. It appears throughout American literature in conversation with itself the racial situations in the United States. From its inception, America has dealt with the question of equality,…

The main goal of the ecocentric Deep Ecology ecological movement is to end the dominantion and power relationships modern humans have over nonhuman Nature, and to set up realistic biological conditions under which the wild species and biodiversity of the earth can exist and flourish. The deep ecological approach to contesting Earth’s future is to distinguish between the vital and the nonvital needs of humans. The vital needs of nonhumans get priority before the non vital needs of humans. Deep…