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. 在第二次世界大战后的几十年里，美国经济进入了一个长期增长的时期，创造了前所未有的财富，但这些发展是以一系列新的环境问题为代价的。不出所料，其中不成比例的数量，比如排放污染的工厂，废物处理设施，以及大型基础设施项目，最终都以有色人种占主导地位的社区而告终。长期以来，种族隔离限制了人们的住房和就业选择，有色人种在战后美国的环境负担中承担着不平等的份额。本文收集了大量关于环境正义运动兴起和演变的原始资料。这些文件显示了20世纪70年代的环保主义者如何认识到有色人种和低收入美国人不得不承担的不平等的环境负担，但却没有采取有意义的行动来解决这些问题。相反，受影响社区本身的行动激发了20世纪80年代和90年代初的环境正义运动。到了二十一世纪之交，环境正义已经日益成为主流，像气候正义、食品正义和绿领工作等问题已经取代了荒野保护成为“环境”问题。战后美国的环境正义是向学生介绍美国环境正义运动以及环境保护主义与社会正义之间时而紧张的关系的有力工具。
基本信息 出版社 : University of Washington Press (2018年7月16日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 328页 ISBN-10 : 0295743689 ISBN-13 : 978-0295743684 商品重量 : 612 g 尺寸 : 15.24 x 2.24 x 22.86 cm
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