Environmental justice in postwar America a documentary reader / edited by Christopher W. Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Christopher W., editor.

Series:

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics.

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Poor--Social conditions.

Minorities--Social conditions.

Environmental justice.

Environmental health.

Ecology.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages).

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]

Summary:

In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence-but these developments came at the cost of a host of new environmental problems. Unsurprisingly, a disproportionate number of them, such as pollution-emitting factories, waste-handling facilities, and big infrastructure projects, ended up in communities dominated by people of color. Constrained by long-standing practices of segregation that limited their housing and employment options, people of color bore an unequal share of postwar America's environmental burdens. This reader collects a wide range of primary source documents on the rise and evolution of the environmental justice movement. The documents show how environmentalists in the 1970s recognized the unequal environmental burdens that people of color and low-income Americans had to bear, yet failed to take meaningful action to resolve them. Instead, activism by the affected communities themselves spurred the environmental justice movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. By the turn of the twenty-first century, environmental justice had become increasingly mainstream, and issues like climate justice, food justice, and green-collar jobs had taken their places alongside the protection of wilderness as "environmental" issues. Environmental Justice in Postwar America is a powerful tool for introducing students to the US environmental justice movement and the sometimes tense relationship between environmentalism and social justice. For more information, visit the editor's website: http://cwwells.net/PostwarEJ

Contents:

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "Understanding Fair Housing," 1973"WHERE WE WORK"; [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi],1940; Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940; Help Wanted White Only; "The Negro Automobile Worker," 1943; Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953; "Biographical Sketch," September 28, 2017; Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity; Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights," 1965

Home Owners Loan Corporation Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941; Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants; Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors' Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942; "Growing Pains of a Brand-New City," 1954; "Confessions of a Block-Buster," 1962; Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963; Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964; Fair Housing Act of 1968

"Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.," 1968"WHERE WE PLAY"; Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950; Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park; Colored Only Sign; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955; Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale's Segregated Public Beach, 1961; Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963; PART 2 A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE; Indians of All Tribes, "The Alcatraz Proclamation," 1969

"'So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows'""Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons," 1969; "Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities," 1970; RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE; Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970; EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971; Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974; "The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself," 1972; TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES

Cover; WEYERHAEUSER ENVIRONMENTAL CLASSICS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword: The Age of Environmental Inequality; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION; "WHERE WE LIVE"; Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938; Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941; Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935; Migratory Mexican Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295743707

0295743700

OCLC:

1032292248