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Environmentalism and Economic Justice - Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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Environmentalism and Economic Justice - Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (Paperback, 3rd ed.)
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Ecological causes are championed not only by lobbyists or hikers.
While mainstream environmentalism is usually characterized by
well-financed, highly structured organizations operating on a
national scale, campaigns for environmental justice are often
fought by poor or minority communities. Environmentalism and
Economic Justice is one of the first books devoted to Chicano
environmental issues and is a study of U.S. environmentalism in
transition as seen through the contributions of people of color. It
elucidates the various forces driving and shaping two important
examples of environmental organizing: the 1965-71 pesticide
campaign of the United Farm Workers and a grazing conflict between
a Hispano cooperative and mainstream environmentalists in northern
New Mexico. The UFW example is one of workers highly marginalized
by racism, whose struggle--as much for identity as for a union
contract--resulted in boycotts of produce at the national level.
The case of the grazing cooperative Ganados del Valle, which sought
access to land set aside for elk hunting, represents a subaltern
group fighting the elitism of natural resource policy in an effort
to pursue a pastoral lifestyle. In both instances Pulido details
the ways in which racism and economic subordination create
subaltern communities, and shows how these groups use available
resources to mobilize and improve their social, economic, and
environmental conditions. Environmentalism and Economic Justice
reveals that the environmental struggles of Chicano communities do
not fit the mold of mainstream environmentalism, as they combine
economic, identity, and quality-of-life issues. Examination of the
forces that create and shape these grassroots movements clearly
demonstrates that environmentalism needs to be sensitive to local
issues, economically empowering, and respectful of ethnic and
cultural diversity.
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