From the First National People of Color Congress on Environmental
Leadership to WTO street protests of the new millennium,
environmental justice activists have challenged the mainstream
movement by linking social inequalities to the uneven distribution
of environmental dangers. Grassroots movements in poor communities
and communities of color strive to protect neighborhoods and
worksites from environmental degradation and struggle to gain equal
access to the natural resources that sustain their cultures. This
book examines environmental justice in its social, economic,
political, and cultural dimensions in both local and global
contexts, with special attention paid to intersections of race,
gender, and class inequality. The first book to link political
studies, literary analysis, and teaching strategies, it offers a
multivocal approach that combines perspectives from organizations
such as the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic
Justice and the International Indigenous Treaty Council with the
insights of such notable scholars as Devon PeAa, Giovanna Di Chiro,
and Valerie Kuletz, and also includes a range of newer voices in
the field. This collection approaches environmental justice
concerns from diverse geographical, ethnic, and disciplinary
perspectives, always viewing environmental issues as integral to
problems of social inequality and oppression. It offers new case
studies of native Alaskans' protests over radiation poisoning;
Hispanos' struggles to protect their land and water rights; Pacific
Islanders' resistance to nuclear weapons testing and nuclear waste
storage; and the efforts of women employees of maquiladoras to
obtain safer living and working environments alongthe U.S.-Mexican
border. The selections also include cultural analyses of
environmental justice arts, such as community art and greening
projects in inner-city Baltimore, and literary analyses of writers
such as Jimmy Santiago Baca, Linda Hogan, Barbara Neely, Nez Perce
orators, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Karen Yamashita--artists who address
issues such as toxicity and cancer, lead poisoning of urban African
American communities, and Native American struggles to remove dams
and save salmon. The book closes with a section of essays that
offer models to teachers hoping to incorporate these issues and
texts into their classrooms. By combining this array of
perspectives, this book makes the field of environmental justice
more accessible to scholars, students, and concerned readers.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, and
Pedagogy / "Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein"
Environmental Justice: A Roundtable Discussion with Simon Ortiz,
Teresa Leal, Devon PeAa, and Terrell Dixon / "Joni Adamson and
Rachel Stein"
Politics
1. Testimonies from Doris Bradshaw, Sterling Gologergen, Edgar
Mouton, Alberto Saldamando, and Paul Smith / "Mei Mei Evans"
2. Throwing Rocks at the Sun: An Interview with Teresa Leal / "Joni
Adamson"
3. Endangered Landscapes and Disappearing Peoples? Identity, Place,
and Community in Ecological Politics / "Devon G. PeAa"
4. Who Hears Their Cry? African American Women and the Fight for
Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee / "Andrea
Simpson"
5. Radiation, Tobacco, and Illness in Point Hope, Alaska:
Approaches to the "Facts" in Contaminated Communities / "Nelta
Edwards"
6. The Movement for EnvironmentalJustice in the Pacific Islands /
"Valerie Kuletz"
Poetics
7. Toward an Environmental Justice Ecocriticism / "T. V.
Reed"
8. From Environmental Justice Literature to the Literature of
Environmental Justice / "Julie Sze"
9. "Nature" and Environmental Justice / "Mei Mei Evans"
10. Activism as Affirmation: Gender and Environmental Justice in
Linda Hogan's "Solar Storms" and Barbara Neely's "Blanche Cleans
Up" / "Rachel Stein"
11. Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer, Gender, and
Environmental Justice / "Jim Tarter"
12. Struggle in Ogoniland: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Cultural Politics
of Environmental Justice / "Susan Comfort"
13. Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land
Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca /
"Tom Lynch"
14. Saving the Salmon, Saving the People: Environmental Justice and
Columbia River Tribal Literatures / "Janis Johnson"
15. Sustaining the "Urban Forest" and Creating Landscapes of Hope:
An Interview with Cinder Hypki and Bryant "Spoon" Smith / "Giovanna
Di Chiro"
Pedagogy
16. Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Environmental Justice
/ "Robert Figueroa"
17. Notes on Cross-Border Environmental Justice Education / "Soenke
Zehle"
18. Changing the Nature of Environmental Studies: Teaching
Environmental Justice to "Mainstream" Students / "Steve
Chase"
19. Teaching Literature of Environmental Justice in an Advanced
Gender Studies Course / "Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine"
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