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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Christopher W. Wells. Foreword by Paul S. Sutter Klappentext 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: The Age of Environmental Inequality / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION "WHERE WE LIVE" Russell Lee, Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938 John Vachon, Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia , 1941 Carl Mydans, Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C. , 1935 Dorothea Lange, Migratory Mexican Field Worker's Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California , 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation, Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939 John Vachon, Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan , 1941 Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants Arthur S. Siegel, 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 Craig Thompson, "Growing Pains of a Brand-New City," 1954 Norris Vitchek, "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 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, "Understanding Fair Housing," 1973 "WHERE WE WORK" Ruby T. Lomax, [ Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi ], 1940 John Vachon, Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland , 1940 Help Wanted White Only Lloyd H. Bailer, "The Negro Automobile Worker," 1943 Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz. , 1953 Mildred Pitts Walter, "Biographical Sketch," September 28, 2017 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: "To Fulfill These Rights," 1965" Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin...
