Environmental Justice: Race, Class, and the Fight Against Toxic Waste, Exercises of Biology

Download Environmental Justice: Race, Class, and the Fight Against Toxic Waste and more Exercises Biology in PDF only on Docsity! 1 Chapter 9 1. Author claims that environmental history really began when? 2. What else was happening at that time? 3. Who supported this environmental movement? 4. What did some in the academic community think of this movement? 5. Were the ecological sciences viewed prominently during this time? 6. What were some of the common values that environmental historians shared with historians in general? 7. What were some of the other themes related to environmental history? 8. Author says that race was absent from environmental history, and if it was included, it was only which race? 9. Much of ej movement began with toxics. 10. Explain the difference between NIMBY and NIABY 11. Environmental justice is likened to civil rights movement. 12. Seen not only as environmental, but as social. 13. Why is there some contention between ej and the mainstream env. movement? 14. Do you think this is real? 15. Comment on the role of minorities in mainstream env organizations? 16. The author cites two reasons why the rift persists between ej and mainstream env.? What are they? Is that last idea true? 17. Dorceta E. Taylor (AA woman from U of Mich.) env groups fail to attract minorities due to the particular appeals and incentives they have promoted? What does this mean? 18. She also points out a difference between “concern” and “action” citing that blacks, “have a history of higher rates of affiliation with voluntary social, political, or religious associations than whites.” 19. What happened in Warren County North Carolina? 20. From their study on e.j., what was the single best predictor of where a commercial hazardous waste facility would be placed? 21. E.j. also says that class is not as important in race in predicting. What’s the role of the government? Do they help? 22. What are some limitations or drawbacks the author points to regarding the e.j. movement? 23. Questions top of page 129: Is the issue really environmental racism or just poverty? Why is race so important? 24. Look at first full paragraph on page 129. There are several points the author wishes would be further analyzed. Discuss with your neighbor. Which do you most identify with and why? 25. Second full paragraph on page 131, “The question of anthropocentrism…. through the issues.” Author argues that these latter are not human-centered issues. Do you agree? What is a human-centered issue? Chapter 10 – Identity politics and multiracial coalitions in the environmental justice movement Docsity.com