Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice

by Hofrichter, Richard; Gelobter, Michel; Hofrichter, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780874807370
• ISBN10: 0874807379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-07
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Introduction	1	(11)
Part One: The Context of Environmental Justice: Perspectives
Capitalism and the Crisis of Environmentalism	12	(13)
Daniel Faber
James O'Connor
Anatomy of Environmental Racism	25	(11)
Robert D. Bullard
Building a New Vision: Feminist, Green Socialism	36	(11)
Mary Mellor
The Promise of Environmental Democracy	47	(11)
John O'Connor
Creating a Culture of Destruction: Gender, Militarism, and the Environment	58	(9)
Joni Seager
Environmental Consequences of Urban Growth and Blight	67	(9)
Cynthia Hamilton
Feminism and Ecology	76	(9)
Ynestra King
Cultural Activism and Environmental Justice	85	(13)
Richard Hofrichter
Part Two: Practice and Politics: Ecological Inequities and Visions of Possibility
RACE, GENDER, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A Society Based on Conquest Cannot Be Sustained: Native Peoples and the Environmental Crisis	98	(9)
Winona LaDuke
Blue-Collar Women and Toxic-Waste Protests: The Process of Politicization	107	(11)
Celene Krauss
Acknowledging the Past, Confronting the Present: Environmental Justice in the 1990s	118	(10)
Richard Moore
Louis Head
Building on Our Past, Planning for Our Future: Communities of Color and the Quest for Environmental Justice	128	(8)
Vernice D. Miller
Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law	136	(8)
Marianne Lavelle
Marcia A. Coyle
Ecofeminism and Grass-roots Environmentalism in the United States	144	(9)
Barbara Epstein
THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT: CRISIS AT WORK
The Effects of Occupational Injury, Illness, and Disease on the Health Status of Black Americans: A Review	153	(10)
Beverly Hendrix Wright
Robert D. Bullard
Farm Workers at Risk	163	(8)
Cesar Chavez
Work: The Most Dangerous Environment	171	(8)
Charles Noble
Labor's Environmental Agenda in the New Corporate Climate	179	(7)
Eric Mann
THE GLOBAL CONNECTION: EXPLOITATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Corporate Plundering of Third-World Resources	186	(11)
Robert Weissman
Global Economic Counterrevolution: The Dynamics of Impoverishment and Marginalization	197	(12)
Walden Bello
Trading Away the Environment: Free-Trade Agreements and Environmental Degradation	209	(10)
Mark Ritchie
Economics and Environmental Justice: Rethinking North-South Relations	219	(7)
Martin Khor Kok Peng
Solidarity with the Third World: Building an International Environmental-Justice Movement	226	(11)
Chris Kiefer
Medea Benjamin
Appendix: Principles of Environmental Justice	237	(3)
Contributors	240	(7)
Index	247